caa a22 4500 386383928 CHVBK 20180307112052.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030788330000554X doi S030788330000554X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030788330000554X Hummelen W. M. H. Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Segmentation of Drama [Elektronische Daten] [W. M. H. Hummelen] The semiotics of drama has proved incapable of formulating a theory of segmentation that can be used in practice. Tadeusz Kowzan admits that his suggestion, ‘l'unité sémiologique du spectacle est une tranche contenant tous les signes émis simultanément, tranche dont la durée est égale au signe qui dure le moins' (1975, 215), leads to a multitude of small, totally unrelated segments. As Erika Fischer-Lichte pointed out (1983, 186-7), it is impossible to tell in advance whether any distinguishable sign system (or combination of sign systems) will manifest itself at all times in the performance. Her conclusion was therefore that semiotics should stop searching for homogeneous units. However, she added, anyone who for practical reasons seeks a division should proceed from the two categories of character and space without which no theatrical process is possible and which can never be consumed into one another. This will not create homogeneous units either, but together these two categories comprise everything to which the various types of theatrical signs may refer. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1989 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 41-50 0307-8833 14:1<41 1989 14 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330000554X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330000554X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hummelen W. M. H. Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 41-50 0307-8833 14:1<41 1989 14 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge