Transcript Communication and Performance

Performance
and
Communication
Performance in Everyday Life
Performance
 “All
the activity of a given participant on a
given occasion which serves to influence in
any way any of the other participants”
 (Goffman,
1959)
Performance Studies

“The central interest of performance studies is
the process of dialogic engagement with one’s
own and other’s communication through the
means of performance.”
 Textually,
contextually, and culturally bound.
Text & Context
 “Nothing
is outside the text…”
 Does
not limit itself to the study and
performance of aesthetic, artistic, or
literary texts
 Any
communicative interaction can be
defined as a text.
 Context
Performance
in Everyday Life

We are all
already
performers.

Socialization
Performance and The Self

The Self
a
unified, singular sense of being
 internal
or…
 a recognizable being
 external

All roles we enact will display certain
aspects of The Self.
Mammal
Assuming Performance Roles

Role Playing

Enacting the behaviors that are associated with
another
 Requires
performance
 Can be done with or without understanding
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Role Taking

Projection of oneself into the viewpoint of another
a
mental process
Viewing The Self
 Monitoring
 process
by
which we
observe and
regulate our
own attitudes
and behaviors
 Dual
Perspective
 the
consideration
of someone
else’s
perspective in
addition to our
own