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Exploring the language of drama : from text to context / edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, and Peter Verdonk. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - x, 181 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-177) and index.

From dramatic text to dramatic performance / Mick Short -- Turn management in drama / Vimala Herman -- Odd talk : studying discourses of incongruity / Paul Simpson -- Implicature, convention and The taming of the shrew / Marilyn M. Cooper -- Accessing character through conversation : Tom Stoppard's Professional foul / Neil Bennison -- (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue / Jonathan Culpeper -- 'Catch[ing] the nearest way' : Macbeth and cognitive metaphor / Donald C. Freeman -- Three models of power in David Mamet's Oleanna / Jean Jacques Weber -- 'Unhappy' confessions in The crucible : a pragmatic explanation / Valerie Lowe -- The give and take of talk, and Caryl Churchill's Cloud nine / Michael Toolan -- Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text : an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The revengers' comedies / Peter K.W. Tan.

ISBN: 0415137942 9780415137942 0415137950 9780415137959

LCCN: 97042989

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English drama--History and criticism.
English language--Style.
Drama--Technique.

LC Class. No.: PR627 / E9 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 822.009