eBook - ePub

Exploring the Language of Drama

Name: Exploring the Language of Drama
ISBN: 9781134774302

From Text to Context

Jonathan Culpeper,

Mick Short,

Peter Verdonk,

192 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Exploring the Language of Drama

From Text to Context

Jonathan Culpeper,

Mick Short,

Peter Verdonk,

About this book

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:

open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue
look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue
consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse
focus on the notion of speech as action
there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment

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