Publications

Publication details [#43344]

Chattopadhuyay, Collette. 2005. Xu Bing: calligraphy, language and interpretation. English Today 21 (1) : 5–10.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

art discussion | communicative effect | communicative efficiency | language and culture | language use

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how Xu Bing's calligraphic artworks of the early 1990s, investigating communicative language functions, explore the link between linguistic intent and subsequent (mis)understanding.