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

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 definition...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
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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