Creative Grammarians: Cognition, Language and Literature – An Exploratory Response

Abstract

Any definition of creativity is a ‘machine’ which produces exactly those instances of creativity that follow the rules of the respective definition – so how does one escape the conundrum of defining individual creativity without turning it into a mere act of reproduction? One of the central tenets of the present volume is that Construction Grammar is particularly suited to bridge the gap between everyday linguistic creativity and highly professionalized and conventionalized forms of cultural reproduction, especially creative literature. While it appears to merely follow a trend in cognitive linguistics, which emerged and firmly established itself over the last three decades, and which emphasizes the creative potential of linguistic practices over and against the definition of language and speech as a rule-based system of engendering constraints, Construction Grammar insists on its ability to provide a most profitable interdisciplinary approach for the study of creativity and language – one that would also be able to embrace and empower the study of literary creativity.

Research on the development model of fusion of poetry communication and literary creation based on information fusion technology under the perspective of national fusion

“…The literature [15] studied the linguistic characteristics of East African writers in their literary endeavors using Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu as an example, pointing out that East African writers need to face the collision between the national language and English in the creative process and Jennifer uses a multi-layered narrative technique to bridge the gap between the languages. The literature [16] explores the language gap in the process of literary creation from the perspective of language and grammar, suggesting that a certain degree of grammatical construction can better enhance the creativity of literary works, advocating the development of the creative potential of language and strengthening the ability of language to serve literary creation. This paper first analyzes the research problem of poetry communication under the convergence development model and proposes an integrated analysis framework for poetry communication data from different information sources.…”

Construction grammar and creativity: Evolution, psychology, and cognitive science

“…In their contributions, the authors, inter alia, explored the following issues of linguistic Fand E-creativity: -How F-and E-creativity can be interpreted from a Construction Grammar perspective (Bergs 2018 (Trousdale 2018). -A critical assessment of all these constructionist approaches from a literature studies perspective (Schneck 2018).…”