ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces various definitions of creativity, a concept that is difficult to pin down with an uncontroversial definition. Then, the chapter presents a recent model of creative thinking that has been proposed to account for the various types of operations that can generate creative behaviors. These operations are bending, breaking, and blending. The relations between these three operations and metaphor are discussed. The chapter then moves on a specific type of creativity, namely linguistic creativity: the ability to produce meaningful creative language. Blending, one of the operations involved in creative behavior, is discussed in more detail because of its resemblance to Blending Theory, a theory of conceptual integration that also accounts for metaphor construction. Finally, the chapter focuses on how language can be bended, broken, and blended, to produce creative expressions. In particular, the chapter focuses on blending language and mixing metaphorical expressions like idioms.
