Rozumienie i istota twórczości językowej dzieci
The Comprehension and Essence of Children’s Linguistic Creativity

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the understanding and the essence of the children’s linguistic creativity. A language is a tool that helps a human being discovering the world. It enables naming things, objects, phenomena, as well as describing observed and experienced states and activities. With a use of language, everybody can express their feelings and attitude to others. A child naturally manoeuvres a language, plays with it, disclosing its verbal creativity. Verbal creativity may be described as an ability of transforming previously heard sentences into new ones, original in terms of content, form and way of expression. At the beginning, I presented the definitions of creativity and the level of understanding of children’s creativity. Then I outlined the meaning of language in the life of the individual and the skillful manipulation of it. In the following I focused on linguistic intelligence by Howard Gardner and the determinants of language activity of children. Finally, I include examples of creative children’s creative texts creations. The article shows different approaches to the linguistic creativity of children and emphasizes the essence of creative activity in the life of every human being.

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