ABSTRACT
This chapter shifts the attention from the language of creativity to the creativity of language itself. It explores creativity associated with language, often known as linguistic creativity. Linguistic creativity, like the term creativity, offers a horizon of possible interpretations. Creativity here is something to do with the language we use, hear, produce, engage in, practise, learn or encounter in our daily life. Language can be manipulated to mediate the production of new valuable ideas and this manipulation is used in this chapter to segment linguistic creativity. Seemingly simple linguistic resources such as prepositions, question words and lexical associations can significantly change the way we look at reality. In this case, the semiotic reality and meaning potential of linguistic creativity change as we change the language used to talk about it. This chapter segments linguistic creativity through question words, prepositions and lexical associations.
