Linguistic approach to creative writing: a walk through the places where creativity manifests itself

Abstract

This article describes the phenomenon of creativity through an approach that focuses on linguistic aspects, beyond the narrative level of linguistic-literary description, based on the main theories of Linguistics. The concept of linguistic creativity, a phenomenon that only manifests itself in human language, is little explored and known in Languages and Literature, although it is extremely productive for writing practices, inside and outside the classroom. In the first part of the article, the concepts of writing, creative writing, creativity and linguistic creativity are discussed; in the second one, the relations between linguistic theories and creativity are discussed based on the concepts of phrase, paradigm, recursion, change, variation and grammaticalization; in the third part, we bring some points from the works of Guimarães Rosa. In the final considerations, we emphasize the expansion of the sense of “creativity”, in order to encompass all textual productions, as a means of making these productions more expressive. This work adopted a bibliographic review as a research methodology.