The Language of Art and Artists

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Darryl Hocking

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Palgrave Macmillan
09 September 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; linguistics; Museums & museology; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics

This book brings together the research of leading scholars who explore the complex interplay between language and art. Employing a diversity of methods—including systemic functional linguistics, corpus analysis, multimodal analysis, genre analysis, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics—this 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.

Edited by: Darryl Hocking
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031897443
ISBN 10: 3031897447
Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 09 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction: Researching the Language of Art and Artists.- 2. Who’s 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: Artist’s 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 Artist’s 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).

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