SEMIOTICS OF THE DRAMA AND THE STYLE OF EUGENE O'NEILL -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of appendices -- 1. Introduction: the purpose and design of this study -- 2. Stylistics in relation to linguistics and semiotics -- 3. The semiotics of the drama -- 4. Approaching the drama of O'Neill through semiotic stylistics -- 5. Establishing a controlled semiotics for the dramatic microcorpus -- 6. A representative segment analysis: Anna Christie I.vi -- 7. Concluding discussion of Desire Under the Elms -- 8. Concluding discussion of Long Day's Journey into Night -- 9. Conclusion: summary of findings at the level of the microcorpus -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A The specification of Aristotelian divisions -- Appendix B The specification of dramatis personae configuration -- Appendix C The specification of awareness level -- Appendix D The specification of oppositional motifs -- Appendix E The segmentation into subscenes -- Appendix F The selection of subscene segments for matrix analysis -- Appendix G The format and notation of the work sheet matrix -- Appendix H Reading the matrices for simultaneity of semiotic systems -- Appendix I Personae configuration and the selection of segments in Desire Under the Elms -- Appendix J Personae configuration and the selection of segments in Long Day's Journey into Night -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- Bibliography.