Talk:Creative linguistics

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for redirecting the page of Creative linguistics to the page Constructed Languages. This was absolutely correct! It could have also been redirected to the page "Interlinguistics" that deals with the creation of new languages.

In reality, Creative Linguistics is totally different.

Creative linguistics is a study of the cross-section between language and creativity, or in other words, the domain common for language/speech, on the one hand, and creativity (generation of newness on the psychological level), on the other.

Just as traditional Linguistics, Creative Linguistics studies all levels and aspects of the language starting from nonverbal communication and paralanguage factors and finishing by phonetics, lexics, grammar, style, and even translation, however, only from the point of view of generated newness.

Creative Linguistics selects in any event having a sign nature the factors dealing with the generation of newness, i.e., with the creative aspect of language and speech. On the other hand, both creative thinking and creative activities, as it is well-known, are based in their majority on the language (including music notation and visual arts language), and thus Creatology (Magyar) that studies the creative process just cannot ignore the language as a colossal machine generating more and more of the new products.

Neither linguistics, nor creatology separately understand and explain how it is done. That is why there grew a need in the Creative Linguistics, and that is why it appeared, just as one day there appeared Mathematical Linguistics, Pragmalinguistics (Morris), Psycholinguistics (Wundt, Chomsky, Leontyev A.A.), Sociolinguistics (Labov), etc. -- all as cross-sections between Linguistics and other domains of research.

A question to the Wiki organizers. Would it be possible to make a new page on Creative linguistics as it should be, i.e., without duplicating Interlinguistics and Constructed Languages? There is literature on creative linguistics, and this is certainly encyclopedia level material.

Please let me know. Gem131 (talk) 03:48, 22 October 2010 (UTC)