[PW] Re: Reenactment and First Person

[Brian Whatcott]

In a different context, people in social psychology classes and management
  classes can be called upon to play one part or another in  (for example)
interviewing a hostile customer. I recall being asked to essentially echo
a pretend customer's words. This is often held to be a satisfying
environment for an unhappy customer.
The exercise in general is called role-playing.

Brian Whatcott

At 01:20 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote:
>Dear Daphne Drewello:
>         This is a common practice in historical reenactment. By playing
>someone else in the "first person," the historic interpreter can demonstrate
>(more or less) how that person would have responded to outside stimuli or
>people. Most often, this is a valid educational tool.

///

>R. Lee Hadden
>Daphne Drewello wrote:
>         Patron wants to know if there is a grammatical term for the
>following:
>A person pretends to be another person to show that person how she should
>have responded to a third person.
>         Patron thinks the term is "third person" but I have problems with
>that.


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