Abstract
The article examines how the aspects of the social world are enacted in a theater play. The data come from a videotaped performance of a professional theater, portraying a story about a workplace organization going through a personnel training program. The aim of the study is to show how the core theme of the play – the teaming up of the personnel – is constructed in the live performance through a range of interactional means. By focusing on four core episodes of the play, the study on the one hand points out to the multiple changes taking place both within and between the different episodes of the play. On the other hand, the episodes of collective action involving the semiotic resources of singing and dancing are shown to represent the ideals of teamwork in distinct ways. The study contributes to the understanding of socially and politically oriented theater as a distinct, pre-rehearsed social setting and the means and practices that it deploys when enacting the aspects of the contemporary societal issues.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Artistic imagery in advertising: experiencing advertisements through art
- Visual metaphtonymy in automobile femvertising
- How to have fun with sticks, bowls, and colored water: insights into multimodal signifier operations through Lacan’s four discourses
- Discourses and practices of attention in video chat
- The influence of multimodal textualization in the conversion of semiotic representations in Italian primary school geometry textbooks
- Interactional means of teaming up: enacting the features of contemporary working life in a theater performance