Common language: Corpus, creativity and cognition

Language and Literature

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 195-216

  Carter, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Linguistic and literary theory; Literariness; Literary language; Pleasure; Spoken discourse; Verbal play

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842275460     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709900800301     Document Type: Article

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