TMA01 Plan MattBrayshaw - 1530 Words

TMA01 – Plan Choose one of the following readings from the first module book, The art of English: everyday creativity: (a) Ronald Carter, ‘Common Language: corpus, creativity and cognition’, pp. 29–37. (b) Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ‘Implicature and impliculture in the short, short story and the tall, tall tale’, pp. 97–102. Summarise the main points of your chosen reading, and evaluate, with reference to other material in the module you have engaged with to date, the extent to which it helps you understand how to identify creativity in everyday language. Introduction Often poetic creativity (playing with the sounds and structures of a language) are associated with literary language – that found in poetry and other forms of literature†¦show more content†¦Contrast with e.g. Ethnographic studies e.g. Eckhert – social categories (not decided before study but through ethnographic study – jocks and burnouts) and language difference – male / female and differences (e.g. non-standard negation (ain’t this rain awful) – link to Carter not told of the gender distribution in the reading – are males / females different in their use of puns, extending metaphors, etc. Also importance of performance (is a notion that all human interaction is a form of performance (McRae and Swann, 2006) and its link to expression / constructions of identity. We know from Carter’s study when people have laughed but really get a very limited, if any, sense of performance – don’t know if used different speaking styles nor if any particular identities were being expressed / constructed / negotiated Contrast with Rampton’s study and depth of ethnographic study, link to language forms and identity – see when people laugh and why and the effect it has on the interaction – the different language used when language crossing (e.g. Panjabi and in which contexts to communicate certain meanings) Cognitive How words are interpreted by the mind and effect it has – although this is not explicitly stated, could link to Carter’s distinction between pattern reforming and pattern reinforcing; and pattern reforming could change the way we look at things and support new