Language and Creativity has become established as a pivotal text for courses in English
Language, Linguistics and Literacy. Creativity in language has conventionally been …

What are the dominant theories and models for the reading of literature? What gaps or
problems exist for our knowledge, especially with regard to second or foreign language …

Literary texts play an important role in learning English language, especially enhancing
communication competence, raising cultural awareness, and generating motivation among …

Jesperson (1904: 16–17) described phraseology as an 'indispensable'dimension of
language competence, but in 1965 Chomsky banished idiomaticity to the fringes of …

The use of literature in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environments has had a long
and controversial history. Currently, literature has returned to the language classroom once …

This thesis introduces an approach to literary reading that takes into account experiential
reading. To this purpose, it describes the different modalities of consciousness involved in …

Selon l'idée de Keats, les gens trouveraient les expressions aux qualités esthétiques plus
précises que les expressions banales. Nous testons cette notion au moyen d'énoncés …

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL) provides an international forum for researchers
who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a deeper and more far …

This chapter discusses the teaching of literary awareness to high-school students of English
as a foreign language (EFL). Dedicated to the topic of iconicity, the proposed pedagogical …

Literature-as defined by merriam-webster online dictionary–is a collection of" writings in
prose or verse-especially, writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing …