Exploring the Language of Drama (eBook, PDF)

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Redaktion: Culpeper, Jonathan; Verdonk, Peter; Short, Mick

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.
The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:
* open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue
* look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue
* consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse
* focus on the notion of speech as action.
there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134774319
• Artikelnr.: 42677232

Autorenporträt

Based at the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Jonathan Culpeper is Lecturer and Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature. Peter Verdonk is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. From dramatic text to dramatic performance
3. Turn management in drama
4. Odd talk: studying discourses of incongruity
5. Implicature
convention and The Taming of the Shrew
6. Accessing character through conversation: Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul
7. (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue
8. 'Catch[ing] the nearest way': Macbeth and cognitive metaphor
9. Three models of power in David Mamet's Oleanna
10. 'Unhappy' confessions in The Crucible: a pragmatic explanation
11. The give and take of talk
and Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine
12. Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers' Comedies
Bibliography
Index