ABSTRACT
We have seen from previous chapters that a range of insights into the nature of language and creativity can be generated by examining instances of language use in a corpus of everyday spoken discourse, and by close exploration of the contexts of interaction and speech genres in which creativity occurs. There are clear grounds for arguing that some contexts are more creativity-prone than others, that creativity is both a psychological and a sociocultural phenomenon, and that a range of different patterns of language, including parts of speech and related features of the grammar and vocabulary of English, play a key part in the establishment of creative effects. And the most basic observation is that creative language use is pervasive and ubiquitous in the CANCODE corpus of spoken discourse.
