Holmes and de Bres analyse creative language in multicultural workplace settings. In the light of your study of this reading and other relevant material from E302, to what extent do you agree that linguistic creativity may create and strengthen social bonds?
(Holmes, J. and de Bres, J. (2016) ‘Reading B: Ethnicity and humour in the workplace’, in Demjén, Z. and Seargeant, P. (eds) Creativity in language: from everyday style to verbal art, Milton Keynes, The Open University, pp. 54–65.)