36.419, Books: The Semiotics of Performances: Bouissac (2024)

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Date: 01-Feb-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Semiotics of Performances: Bouissac (2024)


Title: The Semiotics of Performances
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory
of the Performing Arts
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/semiotics-of-performances-9781350372658/

Author(s): Paul Bouissac

Hardback: 9781350372665 £75.00
Paperback: 9781350372658 £23.99

Abstract:

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for
the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?
Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book
introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and
provides them with a clear method for untangling the multimodal
complexity of performance from the spectator's point of view.
Presenting live performances as two-way communication processes,
social events, and cognitive and affective experiences, each chapter
of this highly accessible book begins first with an overview of the
basics. This is followed by a case study, and moves through to a more
advanced discussion, accompanied by suggestions for exercises and
further reading. Diagrams and flow charts help to clearly illustrate
the conceptual tools used in the analytical process, and a companion
website contains recorded extracts from the live performances
discussed in the book, which students can use to put their knowledge
into practice. The book explores a broad range of performance types
from across different cultures, including music, opera, ballet,
theatre, circus, mime, improvisation, and immersion. It offers a guide
for understanding the way in which a performance is produced, from an
initial idea through to the final presentation in front of a live
audience, and provides the reader with the tools and understanding
they need for a successful semiotic analysis of live performance.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics




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