Dramatic Discourse: Dialogue as Interaction in PlaysWhilst poetry and fiction have been subjected to extensive linguistic analysis, drama has long remained a neglected field for detailed study. Vimala Herman argues that drama should be of particular interest to linguists because of its form, dialogue and subsequent translation into performance. The subsequent interaction that occurs on stage is a rich and fruitful source of analysis and can be studied by using discourse methods that linguists employ for real-life interaction. Shakespeare, Pinter, Osborne, Beckett, Chekhov, and Shaw are just some of the dramatists whose material is drawn upon. Each chapter contains a theoretical section in which major concepts of each framework are explained before the relevance of the framework to dramatic discourse is analyzed and explored using textual examples. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates studying in the areas of literary linguistics and stylistics, or anyone specialising in the relationship between the text and performance. |
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... tobe in similar debatesregarding poetic language (Herman 1983:99–122). Notions of deviance are often grammatically motivated, but there islittleinthe grammatical structures of dramatic speech which could be classified as deviant.
... tobe in similar debatesregarding poetic language (Herman 1983:99–122). Notions of deviance are often grammatically motivated, but there islittleinthe grammatical structures of dramatic speech which could be classified as deviant.
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... tobe communicated aboutparticipants, for example,is nearer todramatic language insome measurethan facetoface conversation. Giventhat the dramatic context is one that is'framed'assuch, and, frames are cognitive and activate various ...
... tobe communicated aboutparticipants, for example,is nearer todramatic language insome measurethan facetoface conversation. Giventhat the dramatic context is one that is'framed'assuch, and, frames are cognitive and activate various ...
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... tobe divided into opposites by the number two. The threes and thefives andthe sevens andsoon cannotbeso neatly organizedand compartmentalized within thebinary. Bitsspill over, overlap and overhang. Categorizations ofthebinarykindare ...
... tobe divided into opposites by the number two. The threes and thefives andthe sevens andsoon cannotbeso neatly organizedand compartmentalized within thebinary. Bitsspill over, overlap and overhang. Categorizations ofthebinarykindare ...
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... tobe.If thetheatrecan use the nonverbal and nonvocal codes, itis precisely because dramatic dialogue tacitly implies virtualspeech eventsand hence permits the exploitation ofthedimensions of suchevents comprehensively and systematically ...
... tobe.If thetheatrecan use the nonverbal and nonvocal codes, itis precisely because dramatic dialogue tacitly implies virtualspeech eventsand hence permits the exploitation ofthedimensions of suchevents comprehensively and systematically ...
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