Darryl Hocking is an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His primary research areas are discourse, genre, and corpus analysis with a particular focus on the interactional genres and communicative practices in visual art settings and their impact on creative activity. His recent books include The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (2022) and Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts (2018).

• 1 Introduction: Researching the Language of Art and Artists.- 2. Who’s Talking and How? Variation Among Voices in the Art Museum.- 3. Evaluation in Museum Communication.- 4. Audio Description and Inclusion in Art Museums: Sculpture and Installation Artwork through the Senses.- 5. Translanguaging Art: Artist’s Engagement with Languaging in Multilingual and Migratory Contexts.- 6. Adapting the Digital Art Portfolio: Japanese Artists in the Globalising Arts World.- 7. Contemporary Illustration: Understanding how illustration resources construct and explain professional illustration expertise.- 8. How Texts Legitimise Artistic Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Artist’s Statements and Art Reviews.- 9. The Titles of Western Works of Visual Art: The History and Significance of their Role in and as Discourse.- 10. Exploring the Rhetorical Functions of the Demonstrating Artist Talk Genre in Context of the Ceramic Arts.- 11. Stance Nouns in Online Painting Exhibition Overviews.- 12. Genres of the Art Discourse Community: The Online Era.