ABSTRACT
An extension of the range of sociocultural contexts simultaneously extends the range of purposes and goals for creativity. This chapter explains that a wider range of data sources are consulted, and collected as part of the CANCODE project. The data range is extended beyond the kinds of contexts preferred for the CANCODE project and a wider range of sociocultural processes and related sociolinguistic research explored. The significance of the relationship between creative communication, language crossing, and more intimate, and fluid speech genres is evidenced in a sub-corpus of emails and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) data collected in Nottingham as a supplement to the CANCODE corpus. The chapter explores that the matrix does not adequately capture the shifting and overlapping nature of discourse creativity of the kind captured in more liminal or IRC communications or in the newly emergent discourses of professional interaction. It discusses the notions of pattern forming and pattern re-forming that are subjected to further critical scrutiny.
