This study opens a project that empirically investigates the Plurilingual Creativity paradigm. This paradigm expands the Multilingual Creative Cognition by making shifts in the conceptualization of the phenomena of multilingualism and creativity, respectively. We examined how multilingual and multicultural factors can contribute to divergent thinking. Online data collection included assessments of language repertoire, multicultural experience, intercultural competence, and divergent thinking. A series of regression analyses obtained evidence for the direct contribution of language repertoire, intercultural competence components and multicultural experience to divergent thinking. In addition, language repertoire was found to moderate the link between management of intercultural interaction and fluency, multicultural experience and both flexibility and originality in divergent thinking. These findings emphasize the importance of considering the contribution of plurilingual/pluricultural factors of language repertoire, multicultural experience, and intercultural competence to creativity. Thereby, these findings provide empirical support for the conceptual shift toward plurilingual creativity.

本研究开启了一个实证研究多语言创造力范式的项目。该范式分别通过改变多语言现象和创造力现象的概念化来扩展多语言创造性认知。我们研究了多语言和多文化因素如何促成发散思维。在线数据收集包括对语言库、多元文化体验、跨文化能力和发散思维的评估。一系列回归分析获得了语言库、跨文化能力成分和多元文化经验对发散思维的直接贡献的证据。此外，发现语言曲目可以调节跨文化互动管理与流畅性之间的联系，多元文化经验和发散思维的灵活性和独创性。这些发现强调了考虑语言库、多元文化体验和跨文化能力等多语言/多文化因素对创造力的贡献的重要性。因此，这些发现为向多语言创造力的概念转变提供了实证支持。