Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversat Contributor(s): Burton, Deirdre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415724961 ISBN-13: 9780415724968 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2013 Click for more in this series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
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BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" L (1.25 lbs) 224 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section - Dialogue - it studies specific drama texts. Drama has been neglected by linguistic studies of literature, and this book develops a new area of literary-linguistic stylistics. It demonstrates how recent advances in the sociolinguistic analysis of conversation (discourse analysis) can account for readers' and audiences' intuitions about dramatic dialogue. The second section - Discourse - uses these studies to develop a powerful and general model of spoken discourse. As well as accounting for the utterance-by-utterance organization of dramatic texts, it provides a descriptive model for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation. Literary texts and natural conversation are used to illustrate each other. |
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