Creativity in Word Formation and Word Interpretation: Creative Potential and Creative Performance

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There are many ways in which we, as speakers, are creative in how we form and interpret new words. Working across the interfaces of psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, this book presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, showing how we manipulate the range of linguistic tools at our disposal to create an infinite range of words and meanings. It provides both a theoretical account of creativity in word-formation and word-interpretation, and an experimental framework with the corresponding results obtained from more than seven hundred participants. Data drawn from this vast range of speakers shows how creativity varies across gender and age, and demonstrates the complexity of relationships between the examined variables. Pioneering in its scope, this volume will pave the way for a brand new area of research in the formation and interpretation of complex words.

Livia Koertvelyessy is Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia. Her research has focused on typology of word-formation and evaluative morphology. Recent publications include Derivational Networks across Languages (co-authored with Stekauer and Bagasheva). Pavol Stekauer is Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia. Recent publications include Derivational Networks across Languages (co-authored with Koertvelyessy and Bagasheva). Pavol Kacmar is Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology, P.J. Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia. His research interests include psychology of time, goal-directed behaviour, self-regulation, social priming, and meta-research. Recent publications include To which World Regions does the Valence-dominance Model of Social Perception Apply? (2021).