I don't want to go all Yoko Ono on you Creativity and Variation in a Family of Constructions

Uhrig P (2018)

Publication Type: Journal article, Review article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Königshausen & Neumann

Book Volume: 66

Pages Range: 295-308

Journal Issue: 3

DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2018-0026

Abstract

The present paper discusses what may be responsible for the creative effect that instances of a family of constructions, the go/get all/full [PROPER NOUN(S)] on Y pattern, appear to have on the hearer. For this purpose, a set of possible properties of creative language use will be discussed and checked against the results of a detailed corpus analysis of the pattern and related structures. Both the speaker's and the hearer's perspectives will be taken into account.

Authors with CRIS profile

Peter Uhrig Chair of English Linguistics

Additional Organisation(s)

Research Training Group 2839, Dimensions of Constructional Space

How to cite

APA:

Uhrig, P. (2018). I don't want to go all Yoko Ono on you Creativity and Variation in a Family of Constructions. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 66(3), 295-308. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0026

MLA:

Uhrig, Peter. "I don't want to go all Yoko Ono on you Creativity and Variation in a Family of Constructions." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66.3 (2018): 295-308.

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