The Library
Methodologies for mobilising languaging : facilitating dynamic linguistic resources in applied performance praxis
Tools
French, Claire (2019) Methodologies for mobilising languaging : facilitating dynamic linguistic resources in applied performance praxis. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
|
PDF
WRAP_Theses_French_(redacted)_2019.pdf - Submitted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (32Mb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b3494229~S15
Abstract
Actors engaged within applied performance praxis have linguistic resources made up of low and high-status linguistic varieties and diverse communicative practices. However, rarely covered in the English-language academic debates and discussions are methodologies for drawing on these resources. In this thesis, I adopt an interdisciplinary approach drawing on sociolinguistics and
applied performance praxis to examine how the facilitator might frame and facilitate actors to draw on their linguistic resources in the performance-making and rehearsal processes, and how these resources can enter similarly into performances to audiences. Central to this investigation is locating strategies that avoid reproducing dominant language ideologies, defined as socially shared beliefs about linguistic varieties and communicative practices. Through observation of praxis and interviews in mostly South African contexts, this thesis examines methodologies for mobilising languaging, defined as flexible and dialogical starting points for the facilitator to support actors to prioritise the intelligibility of their immediate interlocutor, more than facilitators, institutions and potential audiences.
Closely examining a contemporary South African performance example presents key findings for mobilising languaging. I focus on how spontaneity, simultaneity and collaboration influence an actor’s changed modes of embodied participation to mobilise languaging. To locate the language ideologies of the dominant, I make connections between the features of actors’ participation and the wider framing and collaborative dimensions of the arc of praxis, as well as with the socio-historical and linguistic contexts. I argue for the actor to be supported in having, becoming and being a body, or what I refer to as embodied simultaneity. This, I propose as a rich, cyclical, collaborative and embodied engagement that sees actors focusing on the intelligibility of their interlocutor to mobilise languaging. I propose a framework for analysing such participation within framed processes, concluding with a number of starting points for facilitating praxis emphasising reflexive framing, peer actors as mediators and multiple lingua franca.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Performing arts -- Methodology, Applied linguistics, Communication in art | ||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||
Dates: |
|
||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Hutchison, Yvette ; Angouri, Jo | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick ; Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom | ||||
Extent: | 321 leaves : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year