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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... plays. Exploring the Language of Drama: • has chapter summaries and follow-up exercises; • offers practical advice on how to analyse a play extract and write up an assignment; • includes contributions from some of the world's leading ...
... plays. Exploring the Language of Drama: • has chapter summaries and follow-up exercises; • offers practical advice on how to analyse a play extract and write up an assignment; • includes contributions from some of the world's leading ...
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... play Delia Chiaro Language, Ideology and Point of View Paul Simpson A Linguistic History of English Poetry Richard Bradford The Series Editor Literature about Language Valerie Shepherd Twentieth-century Poetry From text to context ...
... play Delia Chiaro Language, Ideology and Point of View Paul Simpson A Linguistic History of English Poetry Richard Bradford The Series Editor Literature about Language Valerie Shepherd Twentieth-century Poetry From text to context ...
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... plays and other texts. Donald C. Freeman is Professor of English at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He edited Linguistics and Literary Style (Holt, Rine-hart and Winston: 1970) and Essays in Modern Stylistics ...
... plays and other texts. Donald C. Freeman is Professor of English at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He edited Linguistics and Literary Style (Holt, Rine-hart and Winston: 1970) and Essays in Modern Stylistics ...
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... Plays and Prose (Longman: 1996) and, with Professor Geoffrey Leech, Style in Fiction (Longman: 1981). He has edited Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature (Longman: 1988), and, with Professor Jenny Thomas, Using Corpora for Language ...
... Plays and Prose (Longman: 1996) and, with Professor Geoffrey Leech, Style in Fiction (Longman: 1981). He has edited Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature (Longman: 1988), and, with Professor Jenny Thomas, Using Corpora for Language ...
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... Plays: Volume 2. Copyright © 1954 by Gallimard, Paris. Extract reproduced by permission of Editions Gallimard. David Mamet: Oleanna. Copyright © 1992 by David Mamet. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, a Division of Random House ...
... Plays: Volume 2. Copyright © 1954 by Gallimard, Paris. Extract reproduced by permission of Editions Gallimard. David Mamet: Oleanna. Copyright © 1992 by David Mamet. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, a Division of Random House ...
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