Exploring the language of drama : from text to context
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Exploring the language of drama : from text to context
（Interface）
Routledge, 1998
- : pbk
Available at 26 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-177) and index
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Description
Fills a significant gap in market, currently almost no work on drama published with students in mind
Includes a wide range of extracts (including Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Alan Ayckbourn, Don Mames)
Edited collection - many contributors are internationally known experts in the field: Marilyn Cooper, Donald Freeman, (US), Vimala Herman (UK), Michael Toolan (UK), Paul Simpson (UK) and Jean Jacques Weber
Editors - Verdonk - Short - very well established
Each chapter is preceeded by brief summary of contents and followed by exercises
Covers various approaches - discourse analysis, pragmatics, cognitive approach
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. From dramatic text to dramatic performance, 3. Turn management in drama, 4. Odd talk: studying discourses of incongruity, 5. Implicature, convention and The Taming of the Shrew, 6. Accessing character through conversation: Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul, 7. (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue, 8. 'Catch[ing] the nearest way': Macbeth and cognitive metaphor, 9. Three models of power in David Mamet's Oleanna, 10. 'Unhappy' confessions in The Crucible: a pragmatic explanation, 11. The give and take of talk, and Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, 12. Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers' Comedies, Bibliography, Index
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