Product Description

This edited collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of of language analysis techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422920 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-28
• Released on: 1998-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Back Cover
This edited collection 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, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, to explore the language of 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 worlds leading scholars in the field, and the plays analysed range from the works of Shakespeare to those of Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard.
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:
open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue
look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand ch

About the Author
Based at the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Jonathan Culpeper is Lecturer and Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature. Peter Verdonk is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam.

Mick Short, Vimala Herman, Paul Simpson, Marilyn M. Cooper, Neil Bennison, Jonathan Culpeper, Donald C. Freeman, Jean Jacques Weber, Valerie Lowe, Michael Toolan and Peter K.W. Tan