CRC 1646

A05: Contextualised metrics of linguistic creativity in literary and non-literary text

In this interdisciplinary project falling between linguistics and literary studies, we will investigate the extent to which linguistic creativity can be measured across literary and non-literary genres with quantitative, corpus-based methods. We ask how the originality and success of linguistic signs vary depending on textual cues and are mediated by a spectrum of popular and artistic genre contexts such as travel blogs, popular fiction and literary novels. Focusing on the ubiquitous thematic domain of descriptions of spatial entities across all genres, we aim to develop data-driven metrics and models that automatically identify creative signs at sentence, paragraph and text level.