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Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity

By Tony Veale

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2012
ISBN
1441181725, 9781441181725
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1343785 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\201
Time added
2014-11-13 16:40:29

Description

Karl Lagerfeld's description of his sunglasses as a 'Burqa for my eyes' drew a huge amount of commentary. But what was going on within that phrase? Why was it deemed original and contentious and what can it tell us about creativity?Taking us through cliché, metaphor, analogy, neologism and surrealism, amongst other creative tropes, Tony Veale offers a comprehensive guide to the actual processes behind linguistic creativity. By grounding his approachable examples in easy to replicate methods, the book is perfect as a resource for individual creative exploration. Anyone with an open mind and a computer and a desire to learn about how we creatively say things with words will love this book.Written by an expert in natural language generation, this deceptively simple book offers powerful tools for reconceptualising creativity.

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