frontstage
English edit
Etymology edit
front + stage, by analogy to backstage.
Adjective edit
frontstage (not comparable)
- Open, occurring in full view of the public or in a public role.
- 1999, Srikant Sarangi, Celia Roberts, Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings, →ISBN, page 68:
- In the light of the 'new work order' requiring explicit accounting of knowledge and responsibility as in case talks, evaluation of professional practice may be a matter of how and where boundaries are drawn between frontstage and backstage activities.
- 2001, Daniel Rigney, The Metaphorical Society: An Invitation to Social Theory, →ISBN, page 153:
- Goffman is alert to the situational variability of the roles we play, distinguishing "frontstage" from "backstage" performances.
Adverb edit
frontstage (not comparable)
- In full view of the public or in a public role.
- 2013, Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 403:
- There are many possible examples which you could use to answer this question: e.g. doctor–patient interactions where the doctor discusses the patient's problems backstage with a colleague or a nurse before meeting the patient frontstage.
Noun edit
frontstage (plural frontstages)
- The public area of a business or enterprise.
- 2013, Raymond Fisk, Stephen Grove, Joby John, Services Marketing Interactive Approach, →ISBN, page 73:
- Another broad issue regarding the physical setting involves decisions about the setting's frontstage and backstage.
- 2005, Sue Beeton, Film-induced Tourism, →ISBN, page 188:
- In the 1970s, MacCannell (1973) developed a six-stage frontstage/backstage model of authenticity that can be applied to theme parks as well as to other tourist sites.