Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to ContextJonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk 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:
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... Falstaff, of course, is overjoyed, imagining all sorts of imminent privileges. Outside Westminster Abbey, Falstaff meets the King: FALSTAFF: My King! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy ...
... Falstaff, of course, is overjoyed, imagining all sorts of imminent privileges. Outside Westminster Abbey, Falstaff meets the King: FALSTAFF: My King! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy ...
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... Falstaff's joyful enthusiasm. The King's line deviates from the patterns set up in Falstaff's. There is no syntactic regularity here. There is no phonological regularity. Note the mid-line sentence boundary disrupting the rhythm, and ...
... Falstaff's joyful enthusiasm. The King's line deviates from the patterns set up in Falstaff's. There is no syntactic regularity here. There is no phonological regularity. Note the mid-line sentence boundary disrupting the rhythm, and ...
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... Falstaff that there has been a change in the relationship. Not only does he deny that he knows Falstaff, but he deliberately offends him by addressing him as 'old man' (not the 'Jack' of former times). Note also that Hal's change in ...
... Falstaff that there has been a change in the relationship. Not only does he deny that he knows Falstaff, but he deliberately offends him by addressing him as 'old man' (not the 'Jack' of former times). Note also that Hal's change in ...
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Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context Jonathan Culpeper,Mick Short,Peter Verdonk Limited preview - 2002 |
Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context Jonathan Culpeper,Mick Short,Peter Verdonk Limited preview - 1998 |
Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context Jonathan Culpeper,Mick Short,Peter Verdonk No preview available - 2002 |
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absurd accusation addressee Alison Anderson Arthur Miller assumptions audience Austin Brown and Levinson Carol Cathy chapter characterization characters Charlie Charlie’s CHOUBERT Co-operative Principle cognitive Colonel Connie Booth container context conventions conversational behaviour critical Czechoslovakia David Mamet discourse analysis dramatic texts Duncan’s example extract Falstaff Fawlty Towers floor flouts Grice’s HALE hearer Heilman Helena Hollar illocutionary act implicates implicatures impoliteness incongruity inferences interaction interpretation interruptions Jacques Weber Jimmy Jimmy’s John John Cleese John’s Karen Kate Kate’s kiou language lecturer linguistic look Macbeth Mamet maxim McKendrick metaphor negative face Nudge nudge odd talk Oleanna participants particular path Paul Simpson performance perlocutionary Petruchio phatic play play’s Polly positive face pragmatic Professional Foul question Request Richards scene schemata Shakespeare’s situation social speak speaker speech acts stage directions Stoppard student stylistics suggests teaching schema Tituba topic turn turn-taking utterance verbal Victoria words