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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: x, 181 p
• Disciplina: 822.009
• Soggetto topico: English drama - History and criticism; English language - Style; Drama - Technique
• Altri autori: CulpeperJonathan <1966-> ShortMick VerdonkPeter <1935->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring the language of drama
• ISBN: 1-134-77430-3; 1-134-77431-1; 1-280-11021-X; 9780203284550; 0-203-28455-0; 0-203-00315-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777087603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II