This collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of language analysis techniques. Editor(s): Culpeper, Jonathan; Short, Mick; Verdonk, Peter. Series: Interface. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2GDC; CF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318. . 1998. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (Interface)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415137942
ISBN 13: 9780415137942
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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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.

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