Dramatism

Prescription
Dramatism is simply symbolism in the wide sense of the word. Or, the former is a plausible metaphor for the latter. The scenario is not the drama, as "the map is not the territory." Symbolism ranges from textualism to contextualism, from syntactics through semantics to pragmatics, or whatever spectrum you like. Meanwhile, dramatism is prescribed to stand for holist or contextualist beyond textualist symbolism, so as to keep distant from the pitfall of deductive and analytic philosophy, logical atomism, logical positivism, innatism, and the like. Furthermore, Ogden & Richards (1923) explain why such a symbolism should be taken very seriously:

In the establishment of symbolism, drama is the active element; it is also opposed of the parts.

Interest area

 * Dramatism - Kenneth Burke
 * Dramaturgy - Erving Goffman
 * Storytelling
 * Narrative
 * Knowledge management
 * Mental model
 * Mind map
 * Metaphor
 * Constructed language
 * Worldbuilding
 * Thick description
 * Affordance
 * Cognitive biases
 * Framing effect
 * Frame analysis
 * Frame semantics
 * General semantics
 * Sensemaking
 * Situation awareness
 * Situation semantics
 * Situated cognition
 * Situated learning
 * Experiential learning
 * Community of practice
 * Reflective practice
 * Behavioral ecology
 * Sociobiology
 * Sociolinguistics
 * Social psychology
 * Social constructionism
 * Social role
 * Legal realism
 * Legal interpretivism
 * Connectionism
 * Contextualism