Publications

Publication details [#53694]

López Rúa, Paula. 2010. Making and breaking the rules: lexical creativity in the alternative music scene. Language Awareness 19 (1) : 51–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language use | manipulating | morphology | rule | song

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study documents how alternative music artists are aware of and manipulate the linguistic system in order to break away from the norm/the predictable and to fulfill aesthetic, social, pragmatic and intellectual needs.