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Exploring the language of drama : from text to context /

by Culpeper, Jonathan; Short, Mick; Verdonk, Peter.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: x, 181 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0415137942; 9780415137942; 0415137950; 9780415137959.Subject(s): English drama -- History and criticism | English language -- Style | Drama -- TechniqueOnline resources: Publisher description
Contents:
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.
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PR502 A88 2013 Moving words : PR502 B657 2010 Poetry : PR508 V45 H53 1996 Metre, rhythm, and verse form / PR627 E9 1998 Exploring the language of drama : PR826 L4 2007 Style in fiction : PR826 P39 1995 How to study a novel / PR1175 M275 2000 The making of a poem :

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.

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