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Communicating Creativity

The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations (PSPOD)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Creativity and Communication

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 1-31
  3. Work

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 65-85
  4. Agency

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 87-110
  5. Motivation

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 111-133
  6. Exploration

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 135-171
  7. Ideas

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 173-206
  8. Identity

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 207-234
  9. Professional Practice

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 235-273
  10. Conclusion

    • Darryl Hocking
    Pages 275-295
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 297-307

About this book

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.

Reviews

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

Communicating Creativity is an impressive piece of work, original in both conception and execution, and distinctive in its contribution to the study of creativity. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches using discourse analysis, corpus-based approaches and the use of more inclusive ethnographies, Hocking validates the important notion of emergent discourses, capturing how they grow holistically and organically to facilitate creative practice. In this respect, the work does valuably push back frontiers in the field.” (Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

    Darryl Hocking

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.

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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