Creativity in Language

Introduction
• Creativity in language: Secret codes, special styles and linguistic taboo
  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & Anne Storch | pp. 1–9
Articles
• The idea of a yell: On metapragmatic discourse
  Anne Storch | pp. 10–28
• Chibende : Linguistic creativity and play in Zimbabwe
  Andrea Hollington | pp. 29–44
• Manipulation in late life: Secret agency and the unintelligible in the speech of the elderly in Eastern Congo
  Nico Nassenstein | pp. 45–62
• Secrecy, sacredness and unveiling of the Kalenjin cultural initiation rites
  Angelika Mietzner | pp. 63–82
• Secret language and resistance to borrowing in Chini
  Joseph Brooks | pp. 83–94
• Hidden from women’s ears: Gender-based taboos in the Vaupés area
  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 95–118
• Gender-switching strategies in the activity of tsinampantsi ‘joking’ among Northern Kampa Arawaks of Peru
  Elena Mihas | pp. 119–147
• Parrots, peccaries, and people: Imagery and metaphor in Aguaruna (Chicham) magic songs
  Simon E. Overall | pp. 148–174
• A culture of secrecy: The hidden narratives of the Ayoreo
  Luca Ciucci | pp. 175–194
• Traversing language barriers: ‘Witoto’ signal drums from Northwest Amazonia
  Katarzyna I. Wojtylak | pp. 195–216
Postscript
• More thoughts on creative and secret language practices
  Andrea Hollington & Nico Nassenstein | pp. 217–223

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