rôle play meaning (dated): definition, quotations

rôle play

verbalso spelled rôle-play

Dated Dated form of roleplay.

Children playing house are assuming parts but they are not rôle playing. They are only being themselves.1959, F. Alexander Magoun, “Teaching and Learning”, in The Teaching of Human Relations by the Case Demonstration Method, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
Managers are expected to be psychologically immersed in their jobs—rather than to rôle play as in bureaucracies—and it is for this reason that so much importance is attached to fostering appropriate organizational cultures, since it is through these rather than through explicitly stated rules and regulations that psychological involvement is to be obtained (Hofstede 1991).1994, Phillip Brown, Richard Scase, “Organizational change and managerial careers”, in Higher Education and Corporate Realities: Class, Culture and the Decline of Graduate Careers, Florence: Taylor & Francis, published 2005, →ISBN, page 6:

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The person offering the description rôle plays the person described, and one of the other two rôle plays the person trying to resolve the situation.1998, Anne Gold, Jennifer Evans, “Working with People, Part One — Management Skills”, in Reflecting on School Management (Master Classes in Education Series), London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Falmer Press, →ISBN, page 44:
“So why do you need to rôle play every single time?” I asked, reasonably, simply because I was, once again, feeling tired with this constant fantasy approach to sex.2005, Emily Delacote, chapter 17, in A Gentle Cause of Chaos: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

noun

Dated Dated form of roleplay.

Everything that happens in the incident discussions and in the rôle plays is from then on regarded as a given fact. Thus, if in a rôle play two executives of Wilma do not succeed in solving the presented problem and get into an emotional dispute, this event is a fact that must be taken into consideration.1962, Management International, Wiesbaden, Hesse: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, →OCLC, page 47:
Chris Robson, one of our project teachers, found that her group of 10-year-old slow learners could not grasp the concept of a standard unit of weight until she set up a rôle play for them. She introduced ‘Weight Street’ to them. Weight Street had three sweet shops and no standard weights.1990, Diane Montgomery, “Difficulties in learning and literacy skills”, in Children with Learning Difficulties (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools), London: Cassell Education; New York, N.Y.: Nichols Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 232:

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“Yvon changes characters,” Denni insisted indignantly, his expression showing hurt . “I just dress up to set a rôle play.”2005, Emily Delacote, chapter 17, in A Gentle Cause of Chaos: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

verb

Dated Dated form of roleplay.

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:

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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:

noun

Dated Dated 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:
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:

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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:

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