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    Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance by Hazel, Spencer;

    Staging Conversation

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 7 August 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350038325
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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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. It offers insights into the intricate ways people organise their interactions, their social affairs and their institutions, providing a toolkit for students and practitioners of the performing arts to embed the finer details of social interaction in their crafting of dramatic performance.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures
    Acknowledgements
    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

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