Dramaturgical Actuations and Symbolic Communication

Trajectories of Experience of Real Life Events. A Semiotic Approach to the Dynamics of Positioning

“…To attempt to relate experience with behavior a theoretical model tailored to these purposes would be needed. This is what Rosa (2007a;2007b) did by applying…”

“…This allows experiences to be communicated and thus opens the path for the study of the trajectories synthetic experiencing may take in a particular setting. The concept of dramaturgical actuation (Rosa 2007b), as a synthesis of action and semiosis, is a device to account for how experience develops into psychological processes leading to understanding lived events and governing behavior.…”

“…These were followed by another series of questions on moral aspects: what they 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 considered to be the right course of action at the time, what they thought later they should have done, and how they judged their own actuation during the activity at the moment of writing the self-report. These questions were devised following a semantic approach to the analysis of action advanced by Rosa (2007a;2007b) and further produced in Rosa and Gonzalez (2006;in press). Figure 2 shows a graphic model of how experience develops into an understanding of the situation and a personal positioning before the on-going episodes.…”

Gesture as a Private Form of Communication During Lessons in an ESL-Designated Elementary Classroom: A Sociocultural Perspective

“…Given the social niche of a classroom, students were sensitive to this modality and engaged in its use themselves. Indeed, newcomers to a community are subjected to mastering the objects and symbols of the new environment only achieved through participation and actuation (Rosa, ).…”

“…In applying this ecosocial semiotic view to L2 learning in the contexts of a new languaculture, we believe that it is useful to adopt Rosa's (, ) perspective on how people come to act on communicative affordances in the environment through mediational actuations of communication occurring over time and across three stages: first is exposure to an aspect of communication that is the object to be understood—a gathering of sense; next is the act of engaging in the act itself; and third is the conventional use of the object in social settings (Rosa , p. 303). Moreover, actuations fall in line with Vygotsky's (; Reiber & Carton, ) theory of mediation in which perception, activity, and consciousness are inextricably bound in the meaning‐making process in relation to internalization.…”