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

Burton, Deirdre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415724961 ISBN 13: 9780415724968

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

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.

About this title

About the Author

Burton, Deirdre

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415724961
• ISBN 13: 9780415724968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224