Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (Interface) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415137942 ISBN 13: 9780415137942

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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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Synopsis

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. Exploring the Language of Drama: * each chapter is summarized and has the follow-up exercises * offers practical advice on how to analyse a play extract and write it up as an assignment * includes contributions from some of the world's leading scholars in the field 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. Mick Short Lancaster University Vimala Herman University of Nottingham Paul Simpson Queen's University Marilyn M.

Cooper Michigan Technological University Neil Bennison

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415137942
• ISBN 13: 9780415137942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Culpeper Jonathan, Short Mick, Verdonk Peter