Some Aspects of the Discourse Pertaining to Digital Museums of Digital Art

This research is part of a wider interdisciplinary field of discourse studies, more specifically, digital art museum discourse (DAMD), which explores various aspects of linguistic expressions that is manifested in digital art museum texts. The introductory part of my paper defines the research perspective. Starting with an instance of digital art museum discourse, I go on to discuss some central and statistically relevant lexical items relating them, by way of illustration, to digital art museum discourse practices. The second part of my research is both general and specific in orientation. More specifically, this part deals with the issue of corpus representativeness and describes some standard tools utilised in computational text analysis (CTA). The focus is then shifted to the discussion of the results obtained by applying CTA to the DAMD corpus. My research intention is based on the starting assumption that highly frequent content words of this discourse type might represent ideas constitutive to digital art museum discourse. To this purpose, CTA is applied to the selected Web pages containing the pertinent discourse chunks under consideration and pertaining to the discourse of digital art museums. The third part proposes an interdisciplinary approach to a theory of DAMD indicating some possible directions for further study in DAMD by means of CTA. Finally, the last part summarises my findings