Collection
Social Interaction and the Theatre Rehearsal
This special issue offers a selection of papers presented at the workshop "Theater Rehearsals – Aesthetic Concepts in Interaction" at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim in May 2019. Although theater and performance are created in and through rehearsals, rehearsals are surprisingly unexplored – in the social sciences as well as in literary and theater studies. In this special issue, we bring together contributions form an interaction analytical point of view that address the question of how theatrical representations are produced through the interactions of participants in rehearsals. Based on video data, they all provide insight into real-life interactions during theater rehearsals. Among other things, the papers explore how theatre-specific resources such as prompting, the use of cues for scene transitions, and the learning of acting methods are realized and applied in rehearsals, and how scene development is interactively organized through the building and stabilization of relevant knowledge over time during the rehearsal process.
Editors
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Axel Schmidt
Axel Schmidt is a research fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (Mannheim) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in the Media and Communication Department. Previously, he researched and taught in sociology, media and communication studies, and education at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Koblenz-Landau, and Basel (Switzerland). His research focuses on actions in multimodal interaction. He is currently investigating instructions, creativity, interactional histories, and task-based orders in theater rehearsals. axel.schmidt@ids-mannheim.de
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Arnulf Deppermann
Arnulf Deppermann is head of the Pragmatics-department at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (Mannheim) and Professor at the Univ of Mannheim. He is working in the areas of Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Interaction Analysis. His recent work has focused on semantics and understanding in social interaction, psychotherapy and theater rehearsals, interactional histories and issues of action formation and ascription, especially in the area of requests and instructions. He is founding editor of the Journal Gesprächsforschung and associate editor of the Journal of Pragmatics. deppermann@ids-mannheim.de
