Discourse as Performance

Release on 1989 | by Michael Issacharoff

TWO Speech Acts Onstage , or Scepticism Ionesco Style Speech acts in literary or nonliterary discourse are subordinate to ... In the latter instance , of course , I am referring to the copy of Discourse as Performance you are holding ...

Discourse as Performance
  • Author: Michael Issacharoff
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 0804717095
  • Category: Literary Criticism
  • Page: 161
  • View: 268

One of the first books to apply contemporary linguistic and semiotic research to drama, Discourse as Performance is an investigation into theatrical discourse - the specifically theatrical use of language in the broadest sense, from verbal utterance to non verbal uses comprising the visual elements of gesture, facial expression, movement, costume, players' bodies, properties, and decor. The book is in three parts. In the first part, the author deals with theatrical discourse proper and distinguishes between its two main modes: dialogue and stage directions. Both modes address the problem of the specificity of theatrical discourse in contrast to other types of discourse, both literary and non-literary. The dialogue raises the questions of who speaks in a play (author, characters, actors) and to whom; the stage directions raise the question of reading a play, as opposed to seeing it performed onstage. The author links these issues to speech act theory and intertextuality.

The Discourse of Public Participation Media

Release on 2014-11-20 | by Joanna Thornborrow

We will return to how these identities are constituted, and how they become established as routine and predictable discourses for a particular kind of self-in-performance, when we examine some examples of specific participatory ...

The Discourse of Public Participation Media
  • Author: Joanna Thornborrow
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781317579953
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 210
  • View: 510

The Discourse of Public Participation Media takes a fresh look at what ‘ordinary’ people are doing on air – what they say, and how and where they get to say it. Using techniques of discourse analysis to explore the construction of participant identities in a range of different public participation genres, Joanna Thornborrow argues that the role of the ‘ordinary’ person in these media environments is frequently anything but. Tracing the development of discourses of public participation media, the book focusses particularly on the 1990s onwards when broadcasting was expanding rapidly: the rise of the TV talk show, increasing formats for public participation in broadcast debate and discussion, and the explosion of reality TV in the first decade of the 21st century. During this period, traditional broadcasting has also had to move with the times and incorporate mobile and web-based communication technologies as new platforms for public access and participation - text and email as well as the telephone - and an audience that moves out of the studio and into the online spaces of chat rooms, comment forums and the ‘twitterverse’. This original study examines the shifting discourses of public engagement and participation resulting from these new forms of communication, making it an ideal companion for students of communication, media and cultural studies, media discourse, broadcast talk and social interaction.

Oral Performance Popular Tradition and Hidden Transcript in Q

Release on 2006 | by Richard A. Horsley

Draper defines the extended covenantal discourse in Luke as Luke 6:12–7:17. He argues that the longer text is ... All three authors stress other important points about the discourse as performance. First, the unit of meaning is the ...

Oral Performance Popular Tradition and Hidden Transcript in Q
  • Author: Richard A. Horsley
  • Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
  • ISBN: 9781589832480
  • Category: Religion
  • Page: 229
  • View: 927

This collection of essays pursues two new approaches to Q, the speeches of Jesus paralleled in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The essays in Part One suggest that recent work in ethnopoetics, the ethnography of performance, and theory of verbal art (especially that of John Miles Foley) both complements and challenges standard approaches to the teaching of Jesus. They explore how Q speeches might be appreciated as oral performance that resonates with listeners in a community context by referencing Israelite popular tradition. The essays in Part Two examine how the work of anthropologist and political scientist James C. Scott on popular tradition, "the moral economy of the peasant," and "hidden transcripts" may illuminate the social context and political implications of Q speeches. --From publisher's description.

Performing Pedagogy

Release on 1999-09-30 | by Charles R. Garoian

Lyotard's concept of narrative knowledge , as it relates to McCauley's dialogic narrative , is concurrent with Paul Ricoeur's ( 1981 ) notion of " discourse , " the speech act as performance . Ricoeur describes discourse as the ...

Performing Pedagogy
  • Author: Charles R. Garoian
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 079144323X
  • Category: Education
  • Page: 248
  • View: 365

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.

Discourse Analysis

Release on 2012-08-30 | by Brian Paltridge

Discourse and performance As Gee explains: a Discourse is a 'dance' that exists in the abstract as a coordinated pattern of words, deeds, values, beliefs, symbols, tools, objects, times, and places in the here and now ...

Discourse Analysis
  • Author: Brian Paltridge
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781441133359
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 296
  • View: 450

This is the new edition of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, an accessible and widely-used introduction to the analysis of discourse. In its 10 chapters the book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis. The book includes the following features: -A full companion website, featuring student and lecturer resources -A new chapter on multimodal discourse analysis -Chapter summaries outlining the key areas covered -Updated examples drawn from film, television, the media and everyday life -Explanations of technical terms in each chapter -Discussion tasks and data analysis projects at the end of each chapter -Student exercises and answer keys for each chapter-Suggestions for further reading This engagingly written introduction to discourse analysis is essential for students encountering discourse analysis for the first time, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It should be on every reading list.

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse

Release on 2004-07-18 | by David Grant

... treats discourse as an ongoing, generative, interactive identity performance. Shifting to an institutional level, a third perspective views discourse as a narrative of gender and power relations that gels into organizational design ...

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse
  • Author: David Grant
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9781446206935
  • Category: Business & Economics
  • Page: 448
  • View: 423

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse has received the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association `Organizational discourse is not a new topic but is one that has grown in significance and citations in recent years. Thanks to the new The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse there is now a definitive set of up-to-the-minute resources available, by distinguished as well as emergent researchers. It should have a prominent place on all organization researchers bookshelves' - Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney `Organizational researchers interested in discursive philosophies, methods and practices will be grateful for the much-needed background and guidance this handbook provides' - Mary Jo Hatch, Professor, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. Co-author The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest (Blackwell) `Discourse analysis has become increasingly popular in organizational studies over the past decade or two. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse will make it even more popular by helping scholars of organizations understand the range of domains, methodologies, perspectives and focal organizational phenomena available to them within this analytic approach. Beyond classifying and describing current literature in the various areas, the chapters in this important new handbook suggest new directions for research using discourse analysis, a valuable service that should help novice and experienced researchers alike' - JoAnne Yates, Sloan School of Management An increasingly significant body of management literature is applying discursive forms of analysis to a range of organizational issues. This emerging arena of research is not only important in providing new insights into processes of organizing, it has also informed and influenced the broader fields of organizational and management studies. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is the definitive text for those with research and teaching interests in the field of organizational discourse. It provides an important overview of the domains of study, methodologies and perspectives used in research on organizational discourse. It shows how discourse analysis has moved beyond its roots in literary theory to become an important approach in the study of organizations. The editors of the Handbook, all renowned authors and experts in this field, have provided an invaluable resource on the application, importance and relevance of discourse to organizational issues for use by tutors and researchers working in the field, as well as providing important reference material for newcomers to this area. Each chapter, written by a leading author on their subject, covers an overview of the existing literature and also frames the future of the field in ways which challenge existing preconceptions. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is indispensable to the teaching, study and research of organizational discourse and will enable readers to develop a level of understanding of organizations commensurate with the most recent, state of the art, theoretical developments in the broader field of organization studies.

Handbook of Constructionist Research

Release on 2013-10-21 | by James A. Holstein

Recently, performance studies has evolved as a subfield of communication that unites interpretative methods with an understanding of bodily expression, textuality, and social context. The discourse-analytic projects undertaken by both ...

Handbook of Constructionist Research
  • Author: James A. Holstein
  • Publisher: Guilford Publications
  • ISBN: 9781462514816
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 832
  • View: 691

Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.

Research Methods in Family Therapy Second Edition

Release on 2005-06-01 | by Douglas H. Sprenkle

In the ensuing section, drawing on my research, I illustrate how I constructed methodology as performance. Methodology as Performance: An Illustration As a producer and consumer of discourses, I drew on Kenneth Gergen's (1997) ...

Research Methods in Family Therapy Second Edition
  • Author: Douglas H. Sprenkle
  • Publisher: Guilford Press
  • ISBN: 9781609181147
  • Category: Psychology
  • Page: 473
  • View: 772

In this widely adopted text and professional reference, leading contributors provide the knowledge needed to design strong qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies; analyze the resulting data; and translate findings into improved practices and programs. Following a consistent format, user-friendly chapters thoroughly describe the various methodologies and illustrate their applications with helpful concrete examples.

Theology as Performance

Release on 2006-06-05 | by Philip Stoltzfus

I will raise four issues here: (1) the use of music as a constructive resource, (2) the commitment to discourses of ... The latter will not permit, on principle, properly theological discourse to be accounted for by discourse ...

Theology as Performance
  • Author: Philip Stoltzfus
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 9780567174734
  • Category: Religion
  • Page: 298
  • View: 164

Theology as Performance breaks new ground in the growing conversation between modern theology and philosophical aesthetics. Stoltzfus proposes that significant moments in the Western development of the concept of God, in particular as represented in the figures of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, have been deeply influenced by concepts and approaches borrowed from the discipline of musical aesthetics. Each thinker develops fundamentally different ways of writing about God that have in significant respects been derived from each one's reading and writing about music. The aesthetic implications of Schleiermacher's so-called subjectivist turn, Barth's objectivist reaction, and Wittgenstein's language-game pragmatism can thus be fully understood only by attending to the musical culture and distinctly musicological discourses that gave rise to them. Stoltzfus constructs two trajectories of thought with which to trace theological reflection upon music throughout the pre-modern period: the traditions of Orpheus and Pythagoras. Schleiermacher's aesthetic approach, then, becomes a modern representative of the Orpheus trajectory, and Barth's approach a representative of the Pythagoras trajectory. Stoltzfus interprets Wittgenstein as putting forward a radical critique of these trajectories and pointing toward a third, "performative" theological-aesthetic method. Theology as Performance offers a provocative rethinking of the aesthetic roots of modern theology.

Intonation in L2 Discourse

Release on 2021-07-11 | by María Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo

The discontinuity or interruption of 'grammatically informed' expectations have often been regarded as 'performance error.' However, since speech is performance, the grammar will be expressed not only in terms of constituents but also ...

Intonation in L2 Discourse
  • Author: María Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781000398861
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 264
  • View: 408

Grounded in a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach, this book applies a contrastive interlanguage corpus-based approach to investigate the nature and role of L2 intonation and its pragmatic function in spoken discourse. The volume offers a brief overview of SFL theories and frameworks, with a clear focus on Halliday’s model of phonology and the proposal of developing a grammar of speech. Integrating a SFL framework with a corpus linguistic-informed approach, the book uses this foundation as a jumping-off point from which to explore the prosodic complexities involved in English language teaching and learning for L2 learners, highlighting its various functions as illustrated in examples from the UAM English Learner Spoken Corpus. A final chapter synthesizes these findings toward critically reflecting on future directions for the study of L2 speech prosody. This book will be key reading for graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics and English language teaching.

Performance A Critical Introduction

Release on 2013-12-16 | by Marvin Carlson

aswellas calling attention both totheopen-endedness of the speech as well as to its performance within a context. ... emerges: allpoetic discourse is dramatization, dramatic permutation (ina mathematical sense) of words.

Performance A Critical Introduction
  • Author: Marvin Carlson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781136498725
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 292
  • View: 317

This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, and cultural theorists. Topics covered include: *the evolution of performance art since the 1960s *the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and current cultural studies *the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and technology. With a fully updated bibliography and additional glossary of terms, students of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history will welcome this new version of a classic text.

Poetry as Research

Release on 2010 | by David Ian Hanauer

Foucault (1972) holds that the individual is seen as constructed by the specific discourses to which he is and has ... A different way of understanding identity as discursive is to position it as performance in discourse (Butler, 1990).

Poetry as Research
  • Author: David Ian Hanauer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9789027233417
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 164
  • View: 556

"Elegantly written, convincingly argued, and interspersed with hauntingly beautiful and poignant poems written by his ESL students, Hanauer's book draws attention to the unexplored potential of poetry writing in a second language classroom." Aneta Pavelenko, Temple University --

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

Release on 2015-01-28 | by E. Waterton

These local endeavours have drawn power fromtheglobal discourseon the site asaWorld HeritageSite – a discourse also ... Inthis way,wesee performance and discourse as important elements in 'heritagization' inboth everyday life and ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
  • Author: E. Waterton
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9781137293565
  • Category: History
  • Page: 586
  • View: 304

This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.

Gender in Applied Communication Contexts

Release on 2003-10-30 | by Patrice M. Buzzanell

Our foci on the complex interplay of gender, context, and discourse and the ways in which these processes shape and are ... research: (a) discourse as outcome: gender identity organizes discourse; (b) discourse as performance: discourse ...

Gender in Applied Communication Contexts
  • Author: Patrice M. Buzzanell
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 9781452267081
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 400
  • View: 898

Gender in Applied Communication Contexts explores the intersection and integration of feminist theory as applied to four important areas: organizational communication, health communication, family communication, and instructional communication. This collection of readings links theoretical insights and contributions to pragmatic ways of improving the lives of women and men in a variety of professional and personal situations. Gender in Applied Communication Contexts is recommended for upper-division and graduate-level courses in gender and communication, feminist theory, organizational communication, health communication, instructional communication, and applied communication. This anthology is also recommended as a research resource for scholars in Women's Studies, Family Studies, and Business and Management.

Pragmatics of Computer Mediated Communication

Release on 2013-01-30 | by Susan Herring

... conspicuous because of their origins in the knotted gardens of the discourse of institutions, yet fully etiolated in comparison to ... in their discussion of the central elements of reflexivity involved in discourse as performance, ...

Pragmatics of Computer Mediated Communication
  • Author: Susan Herring
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110214468
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 771
  • View: 375

Excerpt Open publication The present handbook provides an overview of the pragmatics of language and language use mediated by digital technologies. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined to include text-based interactive communication via the Internet, websites and other multimodal formats, and mobile communication. In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena. Reduced series price (print) available! > For orders, please contact [email protected]

Dictionary of the Theatre

Release on 1998-01-01 | by Patrice Pavis

Therefore , we can speak of theatre discourse as performance and as dramatic text ( awaiting enunciation on stage ) . “ The theatre script , ” remarks ISSACHAROFF ( we would prefer the term dramatic text ) , “ is not an instance of ...

Dictionary of the Theatre
  • Author: Patrice Pavis
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 0802081630
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 469
  • View: 595

An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

Identity and Everyday Life

Release on 2004-04-29 | by Harris M. Berger

Like all of this literature , Parmentier shows that it is reflexive language that frames discourse as performance and links the discourse to situated and larger social contexts . Reflexive language has also been important in the ...

Identity and Everyday Life
  • Author: Harris M. Berger
  • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
  • ISBN: 081956687X
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 185
  • View: 802

A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.

Puppets Gods and Brands

Release on 2019-09-30 | by Teri J. Silvio

The distinction between animation and performance is made through discourse as much as, if not more than, through practice. One task for the anthropologist, then, is to look at which practices are linguistically coded as performance and ...

Puppets Gods and Brands
  • Author: Teri J. Silvio
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
  • ISBN: 9780824880989
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 290
  • View: 692

The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere—in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own—from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and the globalization of media markets. Rather, it points to a paradigm shift. In the last century, performance became a key term in academic and popular discourse: The idea that we construct identities through our gestures and speech proved extremely useful for thinking about many aspects of social life. The present volume proposes an anthropological concept of animation as a contrast and complement to performance: The idea that we construct social others by projecting parts of ourselves out into the world might prove useful for thinking about such topics as climate crisis, corporate branding, and social media. Like performance, animation can serve as a platform for comparisons of different cultures and historical eras. Teri Silvio presents an anthropology of animation through a detailed ethnographic account of how characters, objects, and abstract concepts are invested with lives, personalities, and powers—and how people interact with them—in contemporary Taiwan. The practices analyzed include the worship of wooden statues of Buddhist and Daoist deities and the recent craze for cute vinyl versions of these deities, as well as a wildly popular video fantasy series performed by puppets. She reveals that animation is, like performance, a concept that works differently in different contexts, and that animation practices are deeply informed by local traditions of thinking about the relationships between body and soul, spiritual power and the material world. The case of Taiwan, where Chinese traditions merge with Japanese and American popular culture, uncovers alternatives to seeing animation as either an expression of animism or as “playing God.” Looking at the contemporary world through the lens of animation will help us rethink relationships between global and local, identity and otherness, human and non-human.

Theatre on Terror

Release on 2017-05-08 | by Ariane de Waal

Second, the turn to 'waste and wasted life' in performance ties in with what Foucault refers to as the “insurrection ... a level of critical reflexivity regarding the gaps and absences in a given discourse can nevertheless be achieved.

Theatre on Terror
  • Author: Ariane de Waal
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 9783110515435
  • Category: Literary Criticism
  • Page: 305
  • View: 681

In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both ‘at home’ and ‘on the front line’. Beyond examining the construction and contestation of subject positions in domestic and (sub)urban settings, the book follows border-crossing figures to the shifting battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. What emerges through the analysis of twenty-one plays is not a dichotomy but a dialectics of ‘home’ and ‘front’, where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours of conflict. Revising the critical consensus that post-9/11 drama primarily engages with ‘the real’, Ariane de Waal argues that these plays navigate the complexities of the discourse – rather than the historical or social realities – of war and terrorism. British ‘theatre on terror’ negotiates, inflects, and participates in the discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global insecurities.

Theories of the Theatre

Release on 2018-07-05 | by Marvin A. Carlson

Similarly Michael Issacharoff in Discourse as Performance (1989) argues that the semiologist of the theatre has “no option but to fall back on . . . the script—the only constant element,” and he confines his analysis to what he calls ...

Theories of the Theatre
  • Author: Marvin A. Carlson
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 9781501726880
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 552
  • View: 972

Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.