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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Contents
From dramatic text to dramatic performance | 6 |
Turn management in drama | 19 |
studying discourses of incongruity | 34 |
Implicature convention and The Taming of the Shrew | 54 |
Macbeth | 96 |
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