Resumen de Response to Special Issue of Applied Linguistics devoted to Language Creativity in Everyday Contexts

Ronald Carter

• This paper serves as a response to the articles published in this Special Issue while at the same time looking forward to future developments in this field. Three main areas are identified as of especial significance: the need for more empirical, participant-based research into processes and contexts of everyday language use within a broader social and contextual frame of aesthetics; the need for further exploration of different ‘critical’ and salient moments in discourse when creativity (including artfulness, humour, and language play) is a key component in social interaction; and, finally, the need for creativity research to extend the boundaries of second and foreign language teaching research by producing stronger links between ‘language’ and ‘literature’ teaching. At the same time the paper argues consistently for a view of creativity that recognizes its dynamic, emergent and historically-changing character.