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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... audience in the process)—befriends Hal, the future King. At the end of Henry IV (Part 2) Hal has succeeded to the throne to become Henry V. Falstaff, of course, is overjoyed, imagining all sorts of imminent privileges. Outside ...
... audience in the process)—befriends Hal, the future King. At the end of Henry IV (Part 2) Hal has succeeded to the throne to become Henry V. Falstaff, of course, is overjoyed, imagining all sorts of imminent privileges. Outside ...
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... audience works out this inference, Falstaff fails to pick it up. After these lines we find out that he assumes that the King feels that he has to put on a public face but will speak to him in private. Our poetry analysis 'tool kit' also ...
... audience works out this inference, Falstaff fails to pick it up. After these lines we find out that he assumes that the King feels that he has to put on a public face but will speak to him in private. Our poetry analysis 'tool kit' also ...
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... audience to feel more clearly the relevance of the play for modern times, but that is not the same thing. 5 It is worth remembering that modern directors and actors have a pressure on them to 'do something different' with plays that ...
... audience to feel more clearly the relevance of the play for modern times, but that is not the same thing. 5 It is worth remembering that modern directors and actors have a pressure on them to 'do something different' with plays that ...
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... audience in their seats. I have also seen a repertory production of Macbeth, a play I admire, which was at the same time both unreasonable (unfaithful) and a poor theatrical experience (more than half the audience had walked out before ...
... audience in their seats. I have also seen a repertory production of Macbeth, a play I admire, which was at the same time both unreasonable (unfaithful) and a poor theatrical experience (more than half the audience had walked out before ...
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absurd accusation addressee Alison Anderson Arthur Miller assumptions audience Austin Brown and Levinson Carol Cathy chapter characterization characters Charlie Charlie’s CHOUBERT Co-operative Principle cognitive Colonel Connie Booth container context conventions conversational behaviour critical Czechoslovakia David Mamet discourse analysis dramatic texts Duncan’s example extract Falstaff Fawlty Towers floor flouts Grice’s HALE hearer Heilman Helena Hollar illocutionary act implicates implicatures impoliteness incongruity inferences interaction interpretation interruptions Jacques Weber Jimmy Jimmy’s John John Cleese John’s Karen Kate Kate’s kiou language lecturer linguistic look Macbeth Mamet maxim McKendrick metaphor negative face Nudge nudge odd talk Oleanna participants particular path Paul Simpson performance perlocutionary Petruchio phatic play play’s Polly positive face pragmatic Professional Foul question Request Richards scene schemata Shakespeare’s situation social speak speaker speech acts stage directions Stoppard student stylistics suggests teaching schema Tituba topic turn turn-taking utterance verbal Victoria words