TY  - JOUR
A1  - Furlong, Anne
T1  - The shared communicative act of theatrical texts in performance: a relevance theoretic approach
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - This article adopts a relevance theoretic approach to meaning making in theatrical texts and performances. Theatrical texts communicate immediately to multiple audiences: readers, actors, directors, producers, and designers. They communicate less directly to the writer’s ultimate audience – the playgoer or spectator – through the medium of performance. But playgoers are not passive receptacles for interpretations distilled in rehearsal, enacted through performance, or developed in study and reflection. Rather, in the framework of communication postulated by relevance theory, the audience is an active participant in making meaning. I will briefly review a range of approaches to meaning making in theatre, and then outline my view of a relevance theoretic account of the vital contributions of the audience in constructing the interpretation of performance, treating it as a communicative act.
KW  - relevance theory
KW  - performance
KW  - interpretation
KW  - theatre
KW  - spectatorship
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55476
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-554765
SN  - 2194-5594
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 23
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz
ER  -