Conversation words in art and design practice
A corpus-based ethnography
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.35736Keywords:
art education, conversation, corpus analysis, creativity, discourse, ethnographyAbstract
Spoken and written communication plays a crucial constitutive role in both the production and reception of contemporary art and design practice, and as a result ‘conversation’ words, such as discuss, talk, communicate and respond frequently occur in the texts and talk of art and design educators, their students and creative professionals. In order to understand more about the role of communication in art and design practice, as well as the conceptualisation of art and design practice as communication, this study examines the use of these ‘conversation’ words in ethnographic data collected from a site-specific instance of art and design discourse practice. To achieve this objective, the ethnographic data is treated as sets of corpora which are examined using the tools of corpus analysis. Findings indicate the different constitutive, functional and strategic roles of ‘conversation’ words in art and design education and professional practice. They also shed light on the potential of corpus analytical resources to contribute to ethnographic research.
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Grice, H. P. (1975) Logic and conversation. In P. Cole and J. Morgan (eds) Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3, 41–45. New York: Academic Press.
Hatcher, E. P. (1999) Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Sociology of Art. London: Bergin and Garvey.
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Kahnweiler, D. H. (1949) The Rise of Cubism. New York: Wittenbom, Schultz.
Lasserre, B. (2012) Speaking the critique in graphic design: The role of metaphor. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education 10 (1): 51–66. https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.10.1.51_1
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Melles, G. (2008) Producing fact, affect and identity in architecture critiques: A discourse analysis of student and faculty discourse interaction. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education 6 (3): 159–171. https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.6.3.159_1
Oh, Y., Ishizaki, S., Gross, M. D. and Yi-Luen Do, E. (2013) A theoretical framework of design critiquing in architecture studios. Design Studies 34 (3): 302–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2012.08.004
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Schön, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. London: Temple Smith.
Sullivan, K. (2009) The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language. Poetics Today 30 (3): 517–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2009-004
Swales, J. M., Barks, D., Ostermann, A. C. and Simpson, R. C. (2001) Between critique and accommodation: Reflections on an EAP course for Masters of Architecture students. English for Specific Purposes 20 (1): 439–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0889-4906(01)00020-5
Tomes, A., Oates, C. and Armstrong, P. (1998) Talking design: Negotiating the verbal visual-translation. Design Studies 19 (2): 127–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0142-694X(97)00027-6
Trevelyan, J. (2013) Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer. Wellington: Te Papa Press.
Turner, J. (1996) Cultural values in genre skills: The case of the fine art tutorial. In M. Hewings and T. Dudley-Evans (eds) Evaluation and Course Design in EAP, 121–130. London: Prentice Hall Macmillan.
Uluo?lu, B. (2000) Design knowledge communicated in studio critiques. Design Studies 21 (1): 33–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0142-694X(99)00002-2
Van Gogh, V. (2009) Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, ed. L. Jansen, H. Luijten and N. Bakker. Available online: http://vangoghletters.org
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2018-12-31
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Hocking, D. (2018). Conversation words in art and design practice: A corpus-based ethnography. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 13(1-3), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.35736
