Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation: 30 (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)

Deirdre Burton

ISBN 10: 0415724961 / ISBN 13: 9780415724968

Published by Routledge 2013-11-21, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation: 30 (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)
• Publisher: Routledge 2013-11-21
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415724961
• ISBN 13: 9780415724968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

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Burton, Deirdre