Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
Part I. Preliminaries1
Introduction
Background
Approaches
Part II. Discourse creativity: Styles and genres73
Style mixture and the use of rhetorical sentences
Borrowing others’ styles and manipulating styles-in-transit
Genre mixture between conversation and text
Part III. Rhetorical creativity: Humor and figures141
Puns and intertextuality
Mitate, futaku, and the macro-metaphor
Metaphors in multimodal discourse
Part IV. Grammatical creativity: Sentences and phrases209
Negatives for non-negative effects
Demonstratives and the perspectivization of discourse worlds
First-person references and the perspectivization of multiple selves
Part V. Reflections281
Linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse and beyond
Appendix: Presentation of data in Japanese orthography
Notes
References
Data references
Author index
Subject index
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