Communicating Creativity - The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts

This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates instead that creativity and creative practice are constructed through a complex array of intersecting discourses, each shaped by wider socio-historical contexts, beliefs and values. The author draws upon a range of methods and resources to capture this dynamic complexity from corpus linguistics to ethnography and multimodal analysis. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of discourse analysis, creativity, and applied linguistics. It will also appeal to art and design educators.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Investigating Communication in Creative Practice.- Chapter 3. Work.- Chapter 4. Agency.- Chapter 5. Motivation.- Chapter 6. Exploration.- Chapter 7. Ideas.- Chapter 8. Identity.- Chapter 9. Professional Practice.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Darryl Hocking
is Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research focuses on the interactional genres and communicative practices in art and design settings and how these impact on creative activity. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Auckland University.

Summary

Employs a multi-perspectival approach to discourse analysis


Shows how creative activity is discursively framed by key concepts


Provides deeper insight into the relationship between student creative activity and the communication that takes place in and around the studio context

Additional text

“This is a welcome addition for novices to discourse analyses in art and design fields.” (Gavin Melles, Discourse & Communication, Vol. 13 (1), 2019)

Report

"This is a welcome addition for novices to discourse analyses in art and design fields." (Gavin Melles, Discourse & Communication, Vol. 13 (1), 2019)

Product details

• Authors: Darryl Hocking
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781137558039
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55803-9
• No. of pages: 307
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 217 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 536 g
• Illustrations: XII, 307 p. 12 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations; Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Design, B, Medienwissenschaften, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Communication, The arts: general issues, Arts, Creative Writing, Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Communication Studies, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Fine arts: art forms, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Design, general, Kunst: allgemeine Themen