Competence and ideology in performance

Language games, identity and Israeli bureaucracy in personal narrative

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12370103
AutoresEsther Schely‐newman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas96-113
Data de publicação1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462939809366215
OpenAlexW1980042595
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas35

This paper treats the performance of a personal narrative about an encounter with Israeli bureaucracy. The narrator told his story to friends in a mixture of languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French and Yiddish. The analysis examines the functions of code switching as a main discourse strategy creating a coherent story with personal and social implications. Grounding the event in its double context, as occurred and as told, within the larger historical‐political‐cultural framework of Israeli society, allows for better understanding of the narrative and of creative use of language in performance. The surface level of the text thus mirrors the political structures and cultural hegemonies in Israel of the early 1950s and the late 1980s

Aesthetics · Art · Bureaucracy · Competence (human resources · Identity (music · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Narrative history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies