This book brings together the research of leading scholars who explore the complex interplay between language and art. Employing a diversity of methodsincluding systemic functional linguistics, corpus analysis, multimodal analysis, genre analysis, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguisticsthis edited collection offers fresh perspectives on the role of textual practices in shaping artistic production, interpretation, and engagement across a range of cultural and institutional contexts. The chapters examine a wide range of written and spoken texts, including artists statements, art reviews, painting titles, museum press releases, artists websites, guided tours, audio descriptions, and artist talks. This timely volume is relevant for students, teachers, and researchers in language and applied linguistics, discourse analysis and visual arts, as well as those in the areas of art theory and curatorial studies. It will also appeal to academic literacies and ESP (English for Specific Purposes) practitioners supporting visual arts students worldwide.
1 Introduction: Researching the Language of Art and Artists.-
2. Whos
Talking and How? Variation Among Voices in the Art Museum.-
3. Evaluation in
Museum Communication.-
4. Audio Description and Inclusion in Art Museums:
Sculpture and Installation Artwork through the Senses.-
5. Translanguaging
Art: Artists Engagement with Languaging in Multilingual and Migratory
Contexts.-
6. Adapting the Digital Art Portfolio: Japanese Artists in the
Globalising Arts World.-
7. Contemporary Illustration: Understanding how
illustration resources construct and explain professional illustration
expertise.-
8. How Texts Legitimise Artistic Practice: A Comparative Analysis
of Artists Statements and Art Reviews.-
9. The Titles of Western Works of
Visual Art: The History and Significance of their Role in and as Discourse.-
10. Exploring the Rhetorical Functions of the Demonstrating Artist Talk Genre
in Context of the Ceramic Arts.-
11. Stance Nouns in Online Painting
Exhibition Overviews.-
12. Genres of the Art Discourse Community: The Online
Era.
Darryl Hocking is an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His primary research areas are discourse, genre, and corpus analysis with a particular focus on the interactional genres and communicative practices in visual art settings and their impact on creative activity. His recent books include The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (2022) and Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts (2018).
