Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are important for research in Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics

• DOI: 10.1515/ip-2023-4001
• Publication Date: 2023-08-15T07:51:14Z
• Authors: Vittorio Tantucci
• Keywords: Acknowledgement; Relevance theory; Relevance; Schematic

Abstract The present paper discusses the key role of creativity as a form engagement and categorisation in interaction. One important way to display ‘at talk’ is via resonance, that when speakers re-use linguistic features they heard from one another. Speakers constantly imitate creatively recombine utterances behaviors their interlocutors. Recombinant cognitive mechanism subserving this, it involves speakers’ re-elaboration illocutionary forces others, but also, more generally, creative intervention on observed patterns behaviour context. crucial for primarily two pragmatic conceptual mechanisms: relevance acknowledgement schematic categorization. A persistent tendency towards proactive reformulation an interlocutor’s speech textual indicator acknowledgement. This because what said by other speaker overtly treated useful information continuation opposite trend – be measured large scale lack engagement. varies intra- inter-culturally decisive enactment socio-pragmatic schemas generalisation meaning process shared