Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments

Fischer-Lichte, Erika
Jost, Torsten
Jain, Saskya Iris

Paperback

LinguisticsTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1032238968
ISBN13: 9781032238968
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.

Presenting case studies from around the globe--spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, the UK and the US--the authors explore key issues related to theatrical speech acts, such as (post)colonial language politics; histories, practices and theories of translation for/in performance; as well as practices and processes of embodiment. With scholars from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds examining theatrical speech acts--their preconditions, their cultural and bodily dimensions as well as their manifold political effects--the book introduces readers to a crucial linguistic dimension of historical and contemporary processes of interweaving performance cultures.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Fischer-Lichte, Erika

View All

Also in

Theater History

View All