Table of Contents

1. List of tables; 2. List of figures; 3. List of contributors; 4. Editor's Preface; 5. Introduction; 6. Lexical creativity, textuality and problems of metalanguage (by Lipka, Leonhard); 7. Lexical Creativity in Disourse; 8. How to do (even more) things with nonce words (other than naming) (by Hohenhaus, Peter); 9. The phonetics of 'un' (by Hay, Jennifer); 10. Lexical creativity in texts; 11. The press ; 12. Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British media: The Chavs and the Chav-Nots (by Renouf, Antoinette); 13. Cartoon art; 14. Cathy Wilcox meets the phrasal lexicon: Creative deformation of phrasal lexical items for humorous effect (by Kuiper, Koenraad); 15. Advertising and the media; 16. Blendalicious (by Lehrer, Adrienne); 17. Electronic communication; 18. Keeping up with the times: Lexical creativity in electronic communication (by Lopez Rua, Paula); 19. Fictional genres; 20. Lexical creativity as a marker of style in science fiction and children's literature (by Munat, Judith); 21. Creative concept formation; 22. Dynamic creation of analogically-motivated terms and categories in lexical ontologies (by Veale, Tony); 23. Creative lexical categorization in a narrative fiction (by Porto, M. Dolores); 24. Sociopolitical effects on creativity; 25. Occasional and systematic shifts in word-formation and idiom use in Latvian as a result of translation (by Veisbergs, Andrejs); 26. Critical creativity: A study of 'politically correct' terms in style guides for different types of discourse (by Fischer, Roswitha); 27. Name index; 28. Subject index