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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... essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers' Comedies Peter K.W. Tan Bibliography Index 142 161 172 178 Notes on contributors Neil Bennison taught in Lancaster University's English vi Contents.
... essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers' Comedies Peter K.W. Tan Bibliography Index 142 161 172 178 Notes on contributors Neil Bennison taught in Lancaster University's English vi Contents.
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... example, this book's companion volumes: Twentieth-century Poetry: From text to context, edited by Peter Verdonk, and Twentieth-century Fiction: From text to context, edited by Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber). How does the ...
... example, this book's companion volumes: Twentieth-century Poetry: From text to context, edited by Peter Verdonk, and Twentieth-century Fiction: From text to context, edited by Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber). How does the ...
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... example cannot do justice to either the stylistics of poetry or the stylistics of drama, and we have said nothing about the stylistics of prose. However, it does illustrate the fact that to explain the dynamics of plays properly, we ...
... example cannot do justice to either the stylistics of poetry or the stylistics of drama, and we have said nothing about the stylistics of prose. However, it does illustrate the fact that to explain the dynamics of plays properly, we ...
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... example, Michael Halliday's (1971) application of systemic functional grammar to William Golding's novel The Inheritors inspired the investigation of how ideational patterns (language used to convey experience and information about the ...
... example, Michael Halliday's (1971) application of systemic functional grammar to William Golding's novel The Inheritors inspired the investigation of how ideational patterns (language used to convey experience and information about the ...
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... example, J.L. Styan (1971 [1965]:1) says that 'the fullness of music is only heard in performance, so it is with drama' and the Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells (1970:ix) that 'the reading of a play is a necessarily incomplete ...
... example, J.L. Styan (1971 [1965]:1) says that 'the fullness of music is only heard in performance, so it is with drama' and the Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells (1970:ix) that 'the reading of a play is a necessarily incomplete ...
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