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Création lexicale et créativité textuelle : cas du figement et du défigement
Lexical creation and textual creativity

Author(s): Lichao Zhu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Lexical freezing; de-freezing; lexical creation.

Summary/Abstract: A frozen sequence is a lexical creation. It draws its specificity from the construction of the text. We have tried to demonstrate how an “anti-process”, i.e. de-freezing would undo the language rules. We also establish a typological scheme of different processes of de-freezing and different influences brought to textual creativity. We try to illustrate these two linguistic processes with appropriate examples.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 125-135
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French