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- Title
Delivering Messages to Foreign Visitors - Interpretative Labels in the National Gallery of Slovenia.
- Authors
Miklošević, Željka
- Abstract
The research presented in this paper is based on the premise that providing a wide range of information and establishing a specific relationship with visitors through labels is equally important for their enjoyment of art as is for their learning about art. The aim of the study of interpretive texts from Ljubljana's National Gallery of Slovenia is to explore linguistic aspects that can assist or prevent the successful delivery of information and key messages about works of art to visitors and facilitate their encounters with art. The research is informed by constructivist learning theory, aesthetic development theory and social semiotics. Interpretative labels of two paintings were analysed on the basis of Ravelli's communication frameworks for understanding museum texts. Users' responses to texts in the form of qualitative data, obtained through surveying Croatian university students, were categorized according to the frameworks. The results show that the type and organisation of information, as well as the style of language in general, are of great importance For understanding the texts and paintings. The gallery's overall approach to interpretation can be said to move in the direction of cultural rather than disciplinary interpretation. However, it is based on visitors who are proficient users of English and whose knowledge about art is above average. This indicates a need for both cultural and linguistic adaptation of gallery texts if the institution wants to make art accessible to a wide range of non-Slovenian visitors who use English as lingua franca.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Gallery (Great Britain); INTERNATIONAL visitors; EDUCATIONAL mobility; LABELING services; NONFORMAL education
- Publication
Šolsko Polje, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 5/6, p119
- ISSN
1581-6036
- Publication type
Article