Creativity and the Agile Mind : : A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon / / ed. by Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts, Charles Forceville.

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• MitwirkendeR: Brône, Geert,; Burgers, Christian,; Cancino, Juan Parra,; Cienki, Alan,; Coessens, Kathleen,; Daelemans, Walter,; De Bleser, Frederik,; De Smedt, Tom,; Feyaerts, Kurt,; Forceville, Charles,; Hanks, Patrick,; Hao, Yanfen,; Indurkhya, Bipin,; Langlotz, Andreas,; Meesters, Gert,; Mittelberg, Irene,; Mulken, Margot van,; Nijs, Lucas,; Oben, Bert,; Sambre, Paul,; Schellens, Peter Jan,; Van Asch, Vincent,; Veale, Tony,; Zima, Elisabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Feyaerts, Kurt,; Forceville, Charles,; Veale, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative work do not similarly afford a explanatory insight into the origins and development of the work. As researchers, we must approach creativity both as producers - to consider the vast search-spaces that a producer encounters, and to appreciate the need for heuristic strategies for negotiating this space - and as consumers, to appreciate the levels of shared knowledge (foreground and background) that is exploited by the producer to achieve a knowingly creative effect in the mind of the consumer. This volume thus brings together both producers and consumers in a cross-disciplinary exploration of this complex, many-faceted phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Creativity and the Agile Mind -- 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound -- Part II: Computers and Creativity -- 3. Computers and Creativity -- 4. Gravital: natural language processing for computer graphics -- 5. Talking Points in Linguistic Creativity -- Part III: Verbal Communication -- 6. Creatively Exploiting Linguistic Norms -- 7. Online semantic creativity in parliamentary debates -- 8. Yo, who be the main gangsta in our phat gang? – Linguistic creativity and the construction of hyperpersonal identity -- 9. Resonating humour – A corpus-based approach to creative parallelism in dialogue -- 10. A Cognitive Grammar of Creativity -- Part IV: Visual Communication -- 11. Creativity in the forms and functions of spontaneous gestures with speech -- 12. Creative visual duality in comics balloons -- 13. Creativity in Comics. Exploring the Frontiers of the Medium by Respecting Explicit Self- Imposed Constraints -- 14. On verbal irony, images and creativity: A corpus-analytic approach -- Part V: Musical Performance -- 15. Multimodal blending and musical creativity. Dualities in the quixotry of Richard Strauss, Jan Sandström and Christian Lindberg -- 16. The Agile Musical Mind: mapping the musician’s act of creation -- 17. Timbre Networks: An approach to Composition and Performance in Computer Music -- Index