Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance

Staging Conversation

Dr Spencer Hazel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-03833-2 (ISBN)

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At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner’s work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or what goes into inferring something about a character. Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance uses case studies from dramatic performances and data from real-world interaction to present findings from interaction analytic research. Over ten chapters, Spencer Hazel illuminates the nuances that shape our everyday interactions, demonstrating how practitioners of the dramatic arts seek to develop and construct authentic representations of interaction. This book also explores the processes by which these representations of interaction are produced through interaction: between actors, between actor and director and between others in the creative team.

The dramatic arts explore the social world through representations of people interacting with one another. This new coursebook offers insights into the intricate ways people have been shown to organise their interactions, their social affairs and their institutions, providing a toolkit for students and practitioners of the performing arts to follow, allowing them to understand and construct more authentic interactions in performance.

Spencer Hazel is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is an interaction analyst, and has a previous career in theatre.

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Part I: Studying interaction, in the Arts and in the Sciences
1. Introduction: A Tale of Two Social Sciences
2. The Art of People Watching
3. Staging the World
Part II: Conversation Analysis and its Ethnomethodological Roots
4. An Empirical Approach in Social Interaction Research
5. Principles of CA and Ethnomethodology
6. Membership Categorisation Analysis
Part III: The Art of Social Interaction
7. Dialogue: The Art of Talk-in-Interaction
8. The Building of a Character: Social Identities in Staged Narrative
9. Managing Stage Dynamics: Alignment and Affiliation in Performed Interaction
10. Triggering Laughter: Sequential Organisation and Misdirection in Comedy
11. Conjuring up Objects: Props and their Enactment
12. Concluding Remarks: Performance Practice as Analytic Tool
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-03833-4 / 1350038334
ISBN-13	978-1-350-03833-2 / 9781350038332
Zustand	Neuware