Techne, Technology, Technician

A Linguistic Ethnography of Theatre Production

“…Linguistic ethnography is unusual in scenography and theatre production research, much of which relies primarily on reflective semi-structured interviews (Pilbrow 2010; Moran 2017, for example). Research into scenographic processes, as opposed to reflective or autoethnographic analyses of the end product (that is, the performance itself), has been taken up by only a handful of researchers, most prominently in lighting, Hunt's work focuses primarily on the lighting programmer (2013a and 2013b; Hunt & Melrose 2005) and the physical environment of the technical rehearsal (Hunt 2015). Similarly, applied linguistics research in theatre environments is relatively uncommon; Hazel (2018: 257) posits that this is because of the theatre's focus on repetition of an imagined dialogue rather than on everyday talk.…”