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- Title
Conversational Performance and the Performance of Conversation.
- Authors
Crow, Bryan K.
- Abstract
This article discusses the research process and performance process involved in conversational performance Conversation Pieces: An Empirical Comedy. The development of Conversation Pieces was facilitated by the emergence in the speech communication discipline of a significantly broadened conception of oral performance. In characterizing the emergent paradigm. Ronald J. Pelias and James VanOosting emphasize its counterelitism: all members ofthe culture are viewed as potential performers, all utterances are potentially aesthetic, all events are potentially theatrical. Alongside the work in conversation analysis, but generally separate from it, there has developed a sizable body of research on communication in long-term relationships, or relational communication. The research involved four general stages: problem formulation, data collection, transcription, and analysis. The performance acts considered here tend to have as their main functions entertainment of someone or expressive illustration of something, although their functions might also involve attraction, deception, or persuasion of the intended audience. There are several categories that constitute a starting point for further investigation of performance acts.
- Subjects
CONVERSATION analysis; PERFORMANCE art; ORAL communication; PELIAS, Ronald J.; VANOOSTING, James; SOCIOLOGY methodology
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1988, Vol 32, Issue 3, p23
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1145905