Deirdre Burton

Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C

Applied Linguistics): A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section - Dialogue - it studies specific drama texts. Drama has been neglected by linguistic studies of literature, and this book develops a new area of literary-linguistic stylistics. It demonstrates how recent advances in the sociolinguistic analysis of conversation (discourse analysis) can account for readers' and audiences' intuitions about dramatic dialogue. The second section - Discourse - uses these studies to develop a powerful and general model of spoken discourse. As well as accounting for the utterance-by-utterance organization of dramatic texts, it provides a descriptive model for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation. Literary texts and natural conversation are used to illustrate each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415724968
• ISBN-10: 0415724961
• Artikelnr.: 39594600

Autorenporträt

Burton, Deirdre

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dialogue 1. The Stylistic Analysis of Modern Drama Texts: Some
Background Remarks and a Practical Example 2. A Stylistic Study of
Ionesco's The Bald Prima Donna 3. A Stylistic Study of Pinter's The Dumb
Waiter 4. From Dialogue to Discourse and Back Again 2. Discourse 5. The
Alienated Analyst: An Argument for Rich Data for the Discourse Analyst 6.
The Linguistic Analysis of Spoken Discourse 7. Towards an Analysis of
Casual Conversation 8. Suggestions for Further Research