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Talking, Creating: Interactional Language, Creativity, and Context

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Carter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael – Applied Linguistics, 2004

When creative uses of spoken language have been investigated, the main examples have been restricted to particular contexts such as narrative and related story-telling genres. This paper reports on an initial investigation using the 5 million word CANCODE corpus of everyday spoken English and discusses a range of social contexts in which creative…

Descriptors: Creativity, Social Environment, Oral Language, Applied Linguistics

Speaking Englishes, Speaking Cultures, Using CANCODE.

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Carter, Ronald – Prospect, 1997

Discusses the description of English discourse for teaching purposes, drawing on new information from analysis of CANCODE (Cambridge/Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English). Concludes that language teaching should be based on regularities and patterns, not rules, and that exposure to real, informal language of native speakers, with its…

Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials