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Writing the self
No full textAbout the book: This volume examines ideas about creativity and various approaches to its study. It explores the argument that we use language creatively and the link between creativity and literary language. Chapters examine poetic language, narrative and performance in conversation, and a range of written genres (from graffiti and text messages to online chat)
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Locating creativity in texts and practices
No full textAbout the book: This volume examines ideas about creativity and various approaches to its study. It explores the argument that we use language creatively and the link between creativity and literary language. Chapters examine poetic language, narrative and performance in conversation, and a range of written genres (from graffiti and text messages to online chat)
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Everyday talk
No full textAbout the book: This collection of essays explores the diversity of contemporary English language use, both spoken and written, around the world. The first chapters focus on the use of English within various kinds of interpersonal communication, and later chapters look at artistic and creative products of English speakers and writers, discussing the kinds of cultural achievement they represent. Some chapters address variation in terms of: accent, dialect, and other social and regional forms; written versus spoken forms; and adaptation of language use to serve particular purposes and conform to the conventions of particular kinds of cultural event
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An English Canon?
No full textAbout the book: This collection of essays explores the diversity of contemporary English language use, both spoken and written, around the world. The first chapters focus on the use of English within various kinds of interpersonal communication, and later chapters look at artistic and creative products of English speakers and writers, discussing the kinds of cultural achievement they represent. Some chapters address variation in terms of: accent, dialect, and other social and regional forms; written versus spoken forms; and adaptation of language use to serve particular purposes and conform to the conventions of particular kinds of cultural event
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Socialising children
No full textAbout the book: Childhood is a brand new series, co-published with The Open University which represents a coherent and integrated treatment to a wide range of topics and approaches, which will have a relevance to courses in childhood studies; sociology; psychology; anthropology and cultural studies.
The second volume, Childhoods in Context examines the interplay between family, schooling, work, and other influences in the daily lives of children and young people. Topics include changing family patterns, debates about school versus work, and current concerns about child labour. Issues in early childhood are discussed, as well as the transition from child to adult
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Everyday talk (2nd Edition)
No full textAbout the book: Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics. It examines the way in which the English language is used today in different contexts and in many parts of the world, by both native and non-native speakers. Issues of language use in speech and writing, in work and play, and in persuading and informing are explored and illustrated with data and readings from around the English-using world. The reader is introduced to the adaptations and variations in English language use and to debates relating to how these are perceived and evaluated by different groups of users
From Imaginary Friends to YouTube: narrative and performance in childhood and youth
No full textFrom very early childhood oral, written and enacted stories weave through all our lives and form part of how we come to understand the social and cultural worlds we experience. In this chapter we reflect on young people’s telling and enactment of stories, focussing on the significance of their narrative activity and the creativity it entails. In particular, we ask: -why is narrative so pervasive in young people’s lives? -what role do narratives play in their intellectual, emotional and social development? -how do young people creatively combine words, images and other semiotic modes in their narrative texts and performances? We start by looking at some examples of children’s earliest imaginative language activity. The chapter then follows an approximately chronological development and reflects on the potential value of young people’s narrative language and creativity (using the term ‘young people’ to encompass all ages up to around 20 years and ‘children’ where there is a focus on a younger age group). Throughout, we emphasise young people’s agency within their own development and socialisation, and the ways in which they actively seek to understand the world, other people and themselves. Young people are deeply influenced by their environment and by adult ways of being, and their creative, inventive and sometimes rebellious communication practices reflect how they are forming identities and positioning themselves in the multiple and changing interpersonal, social and cultural contexts they encounter. We define ‘narrative’ as involving a scenario, actor(s) with goals and intentions and a series of sequential events. Stories are always related from a particular perspective, and stem from some interest or concern in the narrator’s life. In narrative play and interaction there is also an important element of performance where language is combined with other modes, and we suggest how this multimodal activity can be understood and analysed. We take what might be termed a social practices approach to young people’s creativity, and view creativity as collaborative, emerging out of and contingent on everyday activity – it is socially and culturally situated rather than ‘a solo process or event’ (Craft, 2010, p20). As well as some degree of personal originality and invention, children’s language creativity often involves remaking and recycling. We suggest that recontextualisation and reconfiguration of existing material is also creative involving some novel element within language, or in the way in which it is used, which prompts a fresh view of the world
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