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'Ron Carter's book is a fresh and thoughtful probing of one of the most neglected topics in contemporary language studies, using the insights provided by the CANCODE corpus, and firmly locating its subject within an interdisciplinary aesthetic perspective. It is a major step forward in conversation analysis, and gives deserved recognition to the remarkable linguistic creativity that exists in all of us.' - David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor
'Few books offer this range of insights into language, thought, and creativity. Carter's book represents the best in interdisciplinary studies on the art and science of ordinary talk; a delight to read. - Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz
'Professor Carter has always recognized that casual spontaneous conversation is extraordinarily rich and creative in the way its speakers use the resources of their language. Thanks to the CANCODE corpus he has been able to document this creativity with dialogue taken from real life. In this new book, Ronald Carter examines the notion of creativity as it appears in different cultural and historical contexts, but with the main focus still in spoken language. The book affords major insights not only into "common talk" but through and beyond this into the nature of language in general.' - M.A.K. Halliday, University of Hong Kong
'This book is a sustained and rigorous examination of creativity in the diversity of language ... Language and Creativity: the Art of Common Talk breaks new ground, and yet it always keeps the reader in mind: as it travels across the new terrain, it maps its movements with absolute clarity and coherence.' - Philip Martin, De Montfort University, Leicester and chair of the Committee for University and College English
'Reading this volume gives the same pleasure as dipping into a reference book on where words come from. It is fascinating and full of background interest ... It is an intriguing study, delving into how human beings use language and how every one of us is creative with it.' – ESB
'The strength of this book is that Carter uses "real" evidence, transcriptions of conversations from the Cancode corpus, a 5-million-word computerised database that includes recordings from a variety of settings in the UK and Ireland. This broad-ranging approach makes the book a useful consciousness-raising exercise for beginner students.' – Jean Aitchison, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'The book is a valuable new intervention which should be considered by all applied linguists for both the detail of its analyses and the larger questions it opens up.' – BaaL News
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Ronald Carter analyzes naturally-occurring spoken language to reveal that ordinary people in everyday speech contexts demonstrate creative capacities for sensitivity to their contexts.
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