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The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-Perspectival Study of Creative Practice

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Corpora and Discourse Studies

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Using a case study of art and design creativity in New Zealand as an example, this chapter looks at how corpus analysis tools can be combined with other sociological and discourse-analytical methods to carry out a multi-perspectival study of discourse in professional or institutional settings. Here, discourse firstly refers to the semiotic resources, in this chapter evidenced as talking and writing, used by individuals and groups to carry out the practices that shape their particular professional, institutional and social worlds (Candlin, 1997). However, discourse is also used here to describe distinct sets of semiotic resources that are habitually drawn upon to represent, frame or make sense of certain practices or objects (i.e. discourse of solidarity, discourse of modernism), often regulating the way that a practice or object can be understood (e.g. Van Leeuwen, 2005).

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Hocking, D. (2015). The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-Perspectival Study of Creative Practice. In: Baker, P., McEnery, T. (eds) Corpora and Discourse Studies. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_10

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