Discourse and Creativity

Jones: Discourse and Creativity Blurb

Bringing together the perspectives of thirteen internationally renowned scholars, this ground-breaking new collection examines two of the most exciting areas in the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. Exploring how different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualise the notion of creativity, each chapter sets out how creativity will be defined and approached.

This book is divided into four parts - literary creativity, workplace creativity, multimodal creativity and creativity and technology - and examines the following key ideas:

        How people interpret and use discourse

        The processes and practices of discourse production

        Discourse in modes other than written and spoken language

        The relationship between discourse and the technologies used to produce it

Discourse and Creativity combines a forward-thinking and interdisciplinary approach to the topic of creativity; this collection will be of great value to students and scholars in applied linguistics, stylistics, and communication studies.

Rodney Jones is the Associate Head of the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong.