Nissi2021

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Nissi2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Nissi2021
Author(s) Riikka Nissi, Melisa Stevanovic
Title Interactional means of teaming up: enacting the features of contemporary working life in a theater performance
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Tag(s) EMCA, collective action, enacting, multimodality, teamwork, theater
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal Multimodal Communication
Volume 10
Number 2
Pages 175–191
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DOI 10.1515/mc-2020-0004
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Abstract

The article examines how the aspects of the social world are enacted in a theater play. The data come from a videotaped performance of a professional theater, portraying a story about a workplace organization going through a personnel training program. The aim of the study is to show how the core theme of the play–the teaming up of the personnel–is constructed in the live performance through a range of interactional means. By focusing on four core episodes of the play, the study on the one hand points out to the multiple changes taking place both within and between the different episodes of the play. On the other hand, the episodes of collective action involving the semiotic resources of singing and dancing are shown to represent the ideals of teamwork in distinct ways. The study contributes to the understanding of socially and politically oriented theater as a distinct, pre-rehearsed social setting and the means and practices that it deploys when enacting the aspects of the contemporary societal issues.

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