"This book considers the concept of linguistic creativity in relation to contact languages and language educational. The perspective proposed places semiotic creativity to the rank of first principle, by which languages are defined, function, and interact"--.

• Cover
• Language Creativity
• Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note on the Cover
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Language Creativity: A Confused Mass of Heterogeneous and Unrelated Things
  • Creativity: A Unique Type of Intellectual Organization
  • Notes
• Chapter 1
• A Creative System? Of Signs Named Language
  • The First Form of Creativity
  • Is Language a Creative System?
  • A Jeu De Signes Appelé Langue
  • Notes
• Chapter 2
• Language and Game Are Typical Creative Activities
  • Language and Game: Semiotic Analogies
  • The Jeu De Signes Appelé Langue as a Language-Game
  • The Linguistic Rule in the PU
  • Notes
• Chapter 3
• The Language between Rule-Governed and Rule-Changing Creativity
  • The Rule-Governed Creativity
  • The Rule-Changing Creativity
  • Sistema, Norma, and Habla: Three Concepts Between Langue and Parole
  • Notes
• Chapter 4
• Educational Linguistics
  • Introduction
  • For a Classification of Semiotic Codes
  • Creativity
  • Issues of Creative Language Education
  • Notes
• Chapter 5
• Open Questions for Semiotic Creativity
  • Introduction
  • Italianisms and pseudo-Italianisms in the Global Context
  • Italiese: A Creative Language
  • Italiese and Italianisms: Issues of Creativity with Different Gradients
  • Notes
• Conclusion
  • Notes
• Afterword
• References
• Index
• About the Author