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SOCIAL SEMIOTICS
卷 24, 期 5, 页码 599-607出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2014.943460
关键词
medical clown; carnival clown; patients' anxiety; humour; carnival laughter; seriousness
The medical clown's multimodal performance in the hospital takes place within its rigid space. A clown in a hospital is a paradox. Medical clowning is a metaphor taken from two seemingly unrelated fields of meaning, juxtaposing what is medical, scientific, serious and logical with clowning, emotions, carnival spirit and humour. The clown addresses barriers erected by illness, pain, alienation and distress with a continuous flexible performance of humour and fantasy tailored to changing conditions and circumstances. A clown, by definition, threatens the public order and seemingly has no place in the hospital paradigm. The current article compares medical clowns to carnival clowns, examines the medical clown's flexible performance, illustrates it with case studies, presents a semiotic analysis of the clown's journey through the hospital and examines the significance of the performance on the ideological level.
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