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Creativity and the Agile Mind : A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon / ed. by Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts, Charles Forceville.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 21Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110293487
  • 9783110295290
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.3/5 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Creativity and the Agile Mind -- 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound -- Part II: Computers and Creativity -- 3. Computers and Creativity -- 4. Gravital: natural language processing for computer graphics -- 5. Talking Points in Linguistic Creativity -- Part III: Verbal Communication -- 6. Creatively Exploiting Linguistic Norms -- 7. Online semantic creativity in parliamentary debates -- 8. Yo, who be the main gangsta in our phat gang? – Linguistic creativity and the construction of hyperpersonal identity -- 9. Resonating humour – A corpus-based approach to creative parallelism in dialogue -- 10. A Cognitive Grammar of Creativity -- Part IV: Visual Communication -- 11. Creativity in the forms and functions of spontaneous gestures with speech -- 12. Creative visual duality in comics balloons -- 13. Creativity in Comics. Exploring the Frontiers of the Medium by Respecting Explicit Self- Imposed Constraints -- 14. On verbal irony, images and creativity: A corpus-analytic approach -- Part V: Musical Performance -- 15. Multimodal blending and musical creativity. Dualities in the quixotry of Richard Strauss, Jan Sandström and Christian Lindberg -- 16. The Agile Musical Mind: mapping the musician’s act of creation -- 17. Timbre Networks: An approach to Composition and Performance in Computer Music -- Index
Summary: Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative work do not similarly afford a explanatory insight into the origins and development of the work. As researchers, we must approach creativity both as producers - to consider the vast search-spaces that a producer encounters, and to appreciate the need for heuristic strategies for negotiating this space - and as consumers, to appreciate the levels of shared knowledge (foreground and background) that is exploited by the producer to achieve a knowingly creative effect in the mind of the consumer. This volume thus brings together both producers and consumers in a cross-disciplinary exploration of this complex, many-faceted phenomenon.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Creativity and the Agile Mind -- 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound -- Part II: Computers and Creativity -- 3. Computers and Creativity -- 4. Gravital: natural language processing for computer graphics -- 5. Talking Points in Linguistic Creativity -- Part III: Verbal Communication -- 6. Creatively Exploiting Linguistic Norms -- 7. Online semantic creativity in parliamentary debates -- 8. Yo, who be the main gangsta in our phat gang? – Linguistic creativity and the construction of hyperpersonal identity -- 9. Resonating humour – A corpus-based approach to creative parallelism in dialogue -- 10. A Cognitive Grammar of Creativity -- Part IV: Visual Communication -- 11. Creativity in the forms and functions of spontaneous gestures with speech -- 12. Creative visual duality in comics balloons -- 13. Creativity in Comics. Exploring the Frontiers of the Medium by Respecting Explicit Self- Imposed Constraints -- 14. On verbal irony, images and creativity: A corpus-analytic approach -- Part V: Musical Performance -- 15. Multimodal blending and musical creativity. Dualities in the quixotry of Richard Strauss, Jan Sandström and Christian Lindberg -- 16. The Agile Musical Mind: mapping the musician’s act of creation -- 17. Timbre Networks: An approach to Composition and Performance in Computer Music -- Index

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Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative work do not similarly afford a explanatory insight into the origins and development of the work. As researchers, we must approach creativity both as producers - to consider the vast search-spaces that a producer encounters, and to appreciate the need for heuristic strategies for negotiating this space - and as consumers, to appreciate the levels of shared knowledge (foreground and background) that is exploited by the producer to achieve a knowingly creative effect in the mind of the consumer. This volume thus brings together both producers and consumers in a cross-disciplinary exploration of this complex, many-faceted phenomenon.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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