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Interdependence Between Drama And Drama

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On the other hand, dramatic speech cannot be regarded only as an extension of everyday speech into drama. Indeed, there is interdependence between dramatic speech and everyday speech, yet there is no identity and although there are many common elements, there are also important differences. These differences can be seen in the fact that drama, theatre and other performance genres like film, carnival, ceremonial ritual are embedded in social culture but as part of what has been termed “expressive culture.”
Drama has its own history and its own contemporary constraints for aesthetic, experimental or social purposes. Dramatic performances are among those which have been called “authoritative” and “authentic” performances in a very specific sense, …show more content…

Therefore, the notion of language use makes language a tool – Bollinger called it a “loaded weapon” – to be exercised by users. Just like language, speech is not only descriptive, it is also actional and can be used to intervene into existing states of affairs and to create others as much as to describe them.
The dramas of dialogue are the dramas of meaning and interpretation. Drama is more than dialogue but, where dialogue is used as a dramatic resource, it plays a fundamental role. According to Herman, “speakers, addressees and speech signify in different directions simultaneously – to themselves, to other, each other, the context of situation, the context of culture, and in their totality they make appeals to interpreters for meaning. Where dialogue is operative in drama, speech functioning is complex with its own specificities which are different to those dealt with in the literary …show more content…

Although there are plays which are mainly written for a reading audience, dramatic texts are generally meant to be presented in front of an audience, in a theatre. Therefore, dramatic texts are different by compared to poetic or narrative texts. There is the primary text (the main body of the play spoken by the characters), and secondary texts (all the texts accompanying the main text: title, dramatis personae, scene descriptions, stage directions for acting and speaking). Depending on whether one reads a play or watches it on stage, one has different kinds of access to dramatic texts. The reader receives written information on what the characters look like, how they act and react in certain situations, how they speak or the setting of the background to a scene. However, another reader also has to make an effort to imagine all these characteristics and interpret them for oneself. On the other hand, stage performances reveal these details from a completely different perspective. In other words: at the theatre the audience is presented with a version of the play which has already been interpreted by the director, actors, costume designers, make-up artists and all the other members of theatre staff, who bring the play to life. The difference, then, lies in different forms of perception. While the audience can actually see

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