Performance and culture emerge during interaction rather than preexisting it

Evidence

The idea of emergence was promoted early on in linguistic anthropology by Dell Hymes, whose view of artful linguistic performance as dialogic rather than monologic led him to call for an understanding of ‘structure as sometimes emergent in action’ (Hymes, 1975: 71). Subsequent anthropologists, notably Richard Bauman and Charles Briggs, moved the field further away from the analysis of performance as mere reiteration of an underlying textual structure that was traditionally taken to be primary. In both their individual and collaborative work (Bauman, 1977; Bauman and Briggs, 1990; Briggs, 1988), these scholars demonstrated that performance is instead emergent in the course of its unfolding in specific encounters. These ideas also inform Bruce Mannheim and Dennis Tedlock’s (1995) view of culture as emergent through dialogical processes; that is, culture is produced as speakers draw on multiple voices and texts in every utterance (Bakhtin, 1981). — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 14

Categorization

• XREF: Traces the intellectual lineage of ‘emergence’ through Hymes, Bauman/Briggs, Mannheim/Tedlock, and Bakhtin — the genealogy underlying principle 1 that the reader is hunting for. — connects to: Human improvisation is regulated by historically situated conditions — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2147; Cultural meanings emerge from convergences of multiple productions, not single sources — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1154; Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 399 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines what it means for structure/performance/culture to be ‘emergent’ as dialogic and unfolding rather than reiterative.

Broader Connections

• Cultural meanings emerge from convergences of multiple productions, not single sources #corroborates (0.88) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1154
• Human improvisation is regulated by historically situated conditions #corroborates (0.82) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2147
• Cultural outcomes within Relation are unpredictable and resist fixed hierarchy #corroborates (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 827
• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life #corroborates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 399
• A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer #corroborates (0.76) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326