rôle-play

present singular third person rôle-plays · participle present rôle-playing · participle past rôle-played · past rôle-played

1. datedDated form of roleplay.

   Here, however, the task is looking at pupils using each other as sources or to rôle-play historical figures.

   1999, Julian Stern, “People as sources: pupils, teachers, families, and beyond”, in Developing as a Teacher of History (Professional Development Management File), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Chris Kington Publishing, →ISBN

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   Adolescents have a basic need to criticise and to rôle-play (especially in peer-group safety) into what can be.

   1974, The Capuchin Annual, Dublin, →OCLC, page 114, column 2

   In this way they are able to maintain a psychological distance from their jobs and to rôle-play, thereby preserving the capacity to develop central life interests and personal identities outside rather than within work.

   1994, Phillip Brown, Richard Scase, “Student orientations to work and careers”, in Higher Education and Corporate Realities: Class, Culture and the Decline of Graduate Careers, Florence: Taylor & Francis, published 2005, →ISBN, page 73

plural rôle-plays

1. countabledateduncountableDated form of roleplay.

   As the courses became more creative, however, the trainer became progressively dissatisfied with these set rôle-plays.

   1969, D. H. Reader, Designing and Conducting Sensitivity Training Laboratories for Management (Psychologia Africana; 5), [Pretoria]: National Institute for Personnel Research, →OCLC, page 18

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   Though he is appalled by what he is doing, Sizwe feels the force of Buntu’s argument, especially when he resorts to rôle-play to image for this reluctant actor the new ‘Robert’ in the line on pay-day at Feltex, or walking into Sales House to buy a new suit, or becoming a respected member of his local church.

   1996, Brian Crow, “‘A Truly Living Moment’: Acting and the Statements Plays”, in Geoffrey V. Davis, Anne Fuchs, editors, Theatre and Change in South Africa (Contemporary Theatre Studies; 12), Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 19

   In rôle-plays, what really matters is that you communicate the messages so that a French person would understand them.

   1997, Michael Buckby, “How to prepare for your speaking exam”, in Revise for French GCSE: Listening and Speaking, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Heinemann Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 60

   It follows from this that theatrical improvisation is open-ended. It would be wrong to infer from this, however, that an improvisation is beyond any control. On the contrary, an improvisation (like a rôle-play of children for that matter) needs to be framed very carefully.

   2004, Niels Lehmann, Janek Szatkowski, “Theatrical Virtuality – Virtual Theatricality”, in Peter Andersen, Lars Qvortrup, editors, Virtual Applications: Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds, London: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 56