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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777087603321

Titolo

Exploring the language of drama : from text to context / / edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, and Peter Verdonk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-77430-3

1-134-77431-1

1-280-11021-X

9780203284550

0-203-28455-0

0-203-00315-2

Descrizione fisica

x, 181 p

Altri autori (Persone)

CulpeperJonathan <1966->

ShortMick

VerdonkPeter <1935->

Disciplina

822.009

Soggetti

English drama - History and criticism

English language - Style

Drama - Technique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction / Jonathan Culpeper -- chapter 2 From dramatic text to dramatic performance / Mick Short -- chapter 3 Turn management in drama / Vimala Herman -- chapter 4 Odd talk -- Studying discourses of incongruity / Paul Simpson -- chapter 5 Implicature, convention and The Taming of the Shrew / Marilyn M. Cooper -- chapter 6 Accessing character through conversation -- Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul / Neil Bennison -- chapter 7 (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue / Jonathan Culpeper -- chapter 8 Catch[ing] the nearest way: Macbeth and cognitive metaphor / Macbeth and cognitive metaphor Donald C. Freeman -- chapter 9 Three models of power in David Mamet's Oleanna / Jean Jacques Weber -- chapter 10 Unhappy confessions in The Crucible -- A pragmatic explanation / Valerie Lowe -- chapter 11 The give and take of talk, and Caryl Churchill's Cloud



Nine / Michael Toolan -- chapter 12 Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers Comedies -- An example from Alan Ayckbourn's / The Revengers Comedies Peter K.W. Tan.