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Explore the concept of performance in everyday life through communication. Understand role-playing, self-perception, and dual perspective. Discover the influence of interactions on the self.
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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 Rachael Brown
Assuming Performance Roles • Role Playing • Enacting the behaviors that are associated with another • Requires performance • Can be done with or without understanding • Role Taking • Projection of oneself into the viewpoint of another • a mental process
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 Viewing The Self