A paradigm for performance studies

1 May 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech

Vol. 73 (2) , 219-231
https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638709383804

Abstract

This article (1) surveys research exemplars of performance studies by tracing their epistemological claims and methodological assertions through discussions of text, event, performer, and audience and (2) claims a paradigmatic relationship between oral interpretation and performance studies.

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