Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor

This Book Investigates Formal Characteristics And Discourse Functions Of Linguistic Creativity At The Level Of Idioms In Spoken Elf As Represented In The Vienna-oxford International Corpus Of English (voice). Building On The Findings Of Previous Elf Research, The Book Proposes That Creativity Might Serve As A Fundamental Concept In Accounting For The Variation That Seems To Be Central To Describing And Understanding English As A Lingua Franca.