The Language of Museum Communication

A Diachronic Perspective

Cecilia Lazzeretti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-72040-8 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release. The analysis is based on a corpus of press releases issued by eight high-profile British and American museums, and has been carried out adopting corpus linguistics and genre analysis methodologies. After identifying the typical features of the museum press release, new media more recently adopted by museums, such as web presentations, blogs, e-news, and social media, are taken into consideration, exploring questions such as how has the language of museum communication changed in order to face the challenge posed by new technologies? Are museum press releases threatened by new approaches used in contemporary public relations? Are the typical press release features still detectable in new genres? Drawing on insights from linguistics, discourse analysis, and museum communication this book will be of great value to researchers and practitioners of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and museum communication scholars.

Cecilia Lazzeretti is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. As a freelance journalist and press officer for an art institution, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, she is professionally involved in the media community. Her research interest concerns corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and genre studies, with a specific focus on the genre of art press releases.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theoretical background: genre analysis.- Chapter 3: Theoretical background: corpus studies.- Chapter 4: Theoretical background: diachronic studies.- Chapter 5: Relevant domains: media, promotional and art discourse.- Chapter 6: Materials.- Chapter 7: Methods.- Chapter 8: Diachronic lexical variation: growth, decline and stability.- Chapter 9: Diachronic structural variation.- Chapter 10: Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 270 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Arts • Corporate Communication • Corpus Linguistics • Cultural Policy • Culture • diachronic • diachronic perspective • Diachronic Studies • discourse • Discourse analysis • Lexis • Linguistics • media • Media Studies • Museum • Policy • Public Relations • Social Media • Sociolinguistics
ISBN-10	1-349-72040-2 / 1349720402
ISBN-13	978-1-349-72040-8 / 9781349720408
Zustand	Neuware