Presentational (other)
Presentational may refer to: * something related to presentation * Presentational acting, a style of acting that acknowledges the audience * Presentational (grammar), a grammatical construction that introduces, and draws the attention towards, a new referent See also * Presentative (other) Presentative may refer to: * In philosophy and psychology, capable of being directly perceived and represented by the mind ** More specifically, represented in the mind as conceived in presentationism * Presentative (linguistics), a word or const ...

Presentation (other)
Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience. Presentation may also refer to: Biology and medicine * Presentation (medical) referring to the initial symptoms or signs * Presentation (obstetrics) in obstetrics * Lordosis behavior, a body posture adopted by some mammals during estrus that is commonly referred to as "presenting" Computing and technology * Corel Presentations, a slideshow, presentation and graphics editing software similar to PowerPoint * Presentation program, computer software used to make presentations, such as Microsoft PowerPoint * Presentation (software), an application used to create neurobehavioral experiments * Presentation layer, in computer networking, the sixth level of the seven layer OSI model Religion * Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, in the Bible, when Jesus was brought to the temple forty days after his birth * Presentation of Mary, an event recognized by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, mentioned in ...
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Presentational Acting
Presentational acting and the related representational acting are opposing ways of sustaining the actor–audience relationship. With presentational acting, the actor acknowledges the audience. With representational acting, the audience is studiously ignored and treated as voyeurs. In the sense of actor-character relationship, the type of theatre that uses 'presentational acting' in the actor-audience relationship, is often associated with a performer using 'representational acting' in their actor-character methodology. Conversely, the type of theatre that uses 'representational acting' in the first sense is often associated with a performer using 'presentational acting' methodology. The actor–audience relationship In every theatrical performance the manner in which each individual actor treats the audience establishes, sustains or varies a particular kind of actor-audience relationship between them. In some plays all of the actors may adopt the same attitude towards the audien ...
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Presentational (grammar)
A presentative, or presentational, is a word or a syntactic structure which presents, or introduces, an entity, bringing it to the attention of the addressee. Typically, the entity thus introduced will serve as the topic of the subsequent discourse. For example, the construction with "there" in the following English sentence is a presentative: ''There appeared a cat on the window sill.'' In French, one of major uses of the words ''voici'' and ''voilà'' is presentative, as in the following example: However, the most common presentative in French is the ''(il) y a'' formula (from verb ''avoir'' ‘have’), as in the following sentence: Similarly to French ''il y a'', in Chinese the existential verb ''yǒu'' (have) is often used as a presentative to introduce new entities into discourse: In Maybrat Maybrat may refer to the following topics from Southwest Papua, Indonesia: * Maybrat language * Maybrat people * Maybrat Regency Maybrat Regency is a regency of Southwest Papu ...
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