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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... particular point of view in prose fiction (Fowler 1977, 1986; Leech and Short 1981; Simpson 1993). More recently, in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, developments in discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics (methods of ...
... particular point of view in prose fiction (Fowler 1977, 1986; Leech and Short 1981; Simpson 1993). More recently, in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, developments in discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics (methods of ...
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... particular aspect raised in the body of the chapter. It is worth bearing in mind that, as we said earlier, the theories and analytical frameworks described in this book need not be confined to the study of drama, but could be used to ...
... particular aspect raised in the body of the chapter. It is worth bearing in mind that, as we said earlier, the theories and analytical frameworks described in this book need not be confined to the study of drama, but could be used to ...
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... particular production of a play will vary to some extent from each of the other performances. How do we resolve this conundrum? I would argue that each performance of a production of a play is in essence a different instantiation of the ...
... particular production of a play will vary to some extent from each of the other performances. How do we resolve this conundrum? I would argue that each performance of a production of a play is in essence a different instantiation of the ...
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... particular utterances in terms of chains of inference leading to performance phenomena. In the case of Sybil's utterance above, for example, we move from the syntactic and intersentential arrangement of the sentences to inferences about ...
... particular utterances in terms of chains of inference leading to performance phenomena. In the case of Sybil's utterance above, for example, we move from the syntactic and intersentential arrangement of the sentences to inferences about ...
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