Creativity: Hypotheses and Scientific Approaches
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Creativity, particularly linguistic creativity, has long intrigued scholars across multiple disciplines for its multifaceted and universally human nature. The 20th and 21st centuries witnessed intensified theoretical inquiry into creativity, especially in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and philosophy, with major contributions from Guilford, Chomsky, and others. Despite significant progress, linguistic creativity remains underexplored within core linguistic theory, often relegated to secondary status or constrained by narrow generative or lexical models. This article aims to synthesize and critically evaluate major scientific approaches to linguistic creativity and establish a broader philosophical and psychological basis for its understanding. The study finds that while structural-generative and lexical perspectives offer insights, they fall short in accounting for the deeper creative principle underpinning language use. Drawing on Descartes and Chomsky, the article underscores creativity as a core human trait that facilitates novel and context-sensitive expression. The article bridges aesthetic, pragmatic, and philosophical interpretations of creativity, arguing for an integrative view that unites linguistic competence with expressive and imaginative functions. By reclaiming creativity as central to linguistic theory and human cognition, this work opens avenues for rethinking linguistic competence, pedagogy, and the philosophical foundations of language.
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