Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction. Intertextuality, dialogism, and memory: The fabric of linguistic creativity -- Part I. The Vocabulary -- Chapter 2. A coat of many colors: Speech as intertextual collage -- Chapter 3. The principal unit of speech vocabulary: The communicative fragment (CF) -- Chapter 4. Integral meaning -- Part II. From the vocabulary to utterances -- Chapter 5. The axis of selection: From the familiar to the new -- Chapter 6. The axis of contiguity: Shaping an utterance -- Chapter 7. Categorization -- Chapter 8. Conclusion. The joy of speaking: Creativity as the fundamental condition of language -- Backmatter