LANGUAGE CREATIVITY: APPROACHES TO THE TOPIC

In this paper we present the summary of the main scientific ideas of V.P. Grigoriev in the sphere of linguistic poetics that are directly related to the creative activity of the language. We specially emphasize Grigoriev’s idea about existence of the fourth “aesthetic-heuristic” dimension of language pervading the other three dimensions of verbal communication: semantics, syntactics and pragmatics. Special attention is paid to the units of language creativity highlighted in Grigoriev’s works - expresseme, createme and heuristeme.

The article also discusses the general problem of relations between concepts of «language creativity» and « language creativeness». In this connection we note that while analyzing the creative potential of language the concept of creativity correlates with the concepts of deviance and occasionality. We also make the assumption that the entire continuum of speech can be measured in terms of the degree of creativity properties manifestation in it which in turn is associated with various degrees of deviance and occasionality manifestations. Finally we illustrate by examples how the degree of manifestation of creativity, deviance and occasionality influences the aesthetic perception of certain language innovations.