Bernhard Schieber

Four Modes of Abhinaya

Knowledge

Abhinaya distinguishes bodily expression, speech and voice, material appearance, and intensified embodied manifestation. These modes work through their relation to the dramatic scene and audience conventions. Mapping them can expose conflicts in a communicative event without converting each category into an isolated decoding technique.

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Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

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Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories

Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.

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