Anthropology 2250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Great Dictator, Ethnopoetics, American Movie
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Performance is emergent in context as a creative exercise of competence. Verbal skill on display for an audience. Ability to move others or cause an emotional effect. The audience knows whether you"re good or not and they will evaluate you. Genre: a metapragmatic orienting schema for entextualization (bauman 2011: 711) A way of organizing or understanding what a thing is. What are you doing to this piece of speech that makes it one kind of text and not another. Ethnopoetics: cross-cultural studies of linguistic features of performance and verbal art. Indications of the performance frame (bauman: metapragmatic orienting frameworks ) Marking the beginnings and endings of speech. Long time ago and a land far away . Past tense story with one part in the present tense. So then the guy says to me, put your hands up! . All the things that aren"t the words. Intertextuality - drawing on the bible to make his speech more powerful.