Schmidt2018

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Schmidt2018
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Schmidt2018
Author(s) Axel Schmidt
Title Prefiguring the future: Projections and preparations within theatrical rehearsals
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Jürgen Streeck
Tag(s) EMCA, Preparations, Theater rehearsal, Projection, Temporality, Multimodality
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2018
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 231–260
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.293.07sch
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Howpublished
Book title Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and Sequentiality of Multimodal Resources
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Abstract

Theater rehearsals have a characteristic temporal organization: They rely on fleeting (talk/embodied conduct) and endurable resources (e.g. manipulation of objects) to accomplish a stage play which has a defined shape. In doing this, participants have to bridge time gaps and they are therefore dependent on practices which are able to prefigure the future in a more sustainable way. Based on video recordings from theater rehearsals I will show the basic operation of these practices: While projections-by-arrangements anticipate the play world verbally, preparations produce material parts of the play world (e.g. attaching props). Finally, I consider more general implications of the differences between “verbalizing” (projections) and “materializing” (preparations) for the temporalities of interactional organization.

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