33.2982, Books: The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists: Hocking

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:42:28
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists: Hocking

 


Title: The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual
Artists 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/impact-everyday-language-change-practices-visual-artists?format=PB 


Author: Darryl Hocking

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009225731 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009225731 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 15.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009225731 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 17.51


Abstract:

The practices of visual artists can never be decontextualised from language.
Firstly, artists are constantly in dialogue with their peers, dealers,
critics, and audiences about their creative activities and these interactions
impact on the work they produce. Secondly, artists' conceptualisations of what
artistic practice encompasses are always shaped by wider social discourses.
These discourses, however, and their manifestation in the language of everyday
life are subject to continual change, and potentially reshape the way that
artists conceptualise their practices. Using a 235,000-word diachronic corpus
developed from artists' interviews and statements, this Element investigates
shifts in artists' use of language to conceptualise their art practice from
1950 to 2019. It then compares these shifts to see if they align with changes
in the wider English lexicon and whether there might be a relationship between
everyday language change and the aesthetic and conceptual developments that
take place in the art world.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Methods; 3. Changing Trends in Artists' Conceptualisation
of their Creative Practices; 4. Comparison with the Wider English Lexicon; 5.
Discussion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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