Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to ContextJonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:
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... John Stephens Literary Studies in Action Alan Durant and Nigel Fabb Language in Popular Fiction Walter Nash Language, Text and Context Essays in stylistics Edited by Michael J. Toolan The Language of Jokes Analysing verbal play Delia ...
... John Stephens Literary Studies in Action Alan Durant and Nigel Fabb Language in Popular Fiction Walter Nash Language, Text and Context Essays in stylistics Edited by Michael J. Toolan The Language of Jokes Analysing verbal play Delia ...
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... John Cleese and Connie Booth: 'Communication Problems' in The Complete Fawlty Towers. Extract reproduced by permission of David Wilkinson Associates. David Hare: The Secret Rapture. Extract reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber ...
... John Cleese and Connie Booth: 'Communication Problems' in The Complete Fawlty Towers. Extract reproduced by permission of David Wilkinson Associates. David Hare: The Secret Rapture. Extract reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber ...
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... John, directed by Buzz Goodbody at Stratford-upon-Avon, where the actors pretended to be puppets throughout. This production was an interesting and enjoyable theatrical experience, but was unfaithful to the original script. Although it ...
... John, directed by Buzz Goodbody at Stratford-upon-Avon, where the actors pretended to be puppets throughout. This production was an interesting and enjoyable theatrical experience, but was unfaithful to the original script. Although it ...
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... John Cleese/Connie Booth Fawlty Towers TV series. I choose the very beginning as there are no compli-cations concerning assumptions of knowledge from previous parts of the text: [The hotel lobby. Things are busy; Sybil and Polly are ...
... John Cleese/Connie Booth Fawlty Towers TV series. I choose the very beginning as there are no compli-cations concerning assumptions of knowledge from previous parts of the text: [The hotel lobby. Things are busy; Sybil and Polly are ...
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