Dramatic Discourse : Dialogue as Interaction in Plays.
Title:
Dramatic Discourse : Dialogue as Interaction in Plays.
Author:
Herman, Vimala.
ISBN:
9780203981108
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (341 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE -- CONVERSATION AND DRAMATIC DIALOGUE -- DIALOGUE, INTERACTION, UTTERANCE -- Chapter 1 The ethnography of speaking -- SCENES OF SPEECH -- DEIXIS -- SPEECH EVENTS IN DRAMA -- THE PARTICIPANT FRAMEWORK -- SPEAKERS AND PERSONAE -- PARTICIPANT CONFIGURATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION IN DRAMA -- VERBALIZING SPACE -- TIME IN LANGUAGE -- TIME IN DRAMA -- Chapter 2 Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis -- THE SYSTEMATICS OF TURN-TAKING: GENERAL -- SEQUENCING OF TURNS: GENERAL -- DRAMA AND THE SYSTEMATICS OF TURN-TAKING -- TURN CHANGE OPTIONS -- TURN CONSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: DISTRIBUTION, ORDER AND LENGTH -- Chapter 3 Turn sequencing -- TURN SEQUENCING IN DRAMA -- INTIMACY SEQUENCES -- ALTERNATIVE SEQUENCES -- REPETITION -- OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS -- Chapter 4 Pragmatics -- PRELIMINARIES: GENERAL FRAMEWORKS -- POLITENESS PHENOMENA -- PRAGMATICS AND DRAMA: GENERAL -- THE INTENTIONAL SELF -- LOCUTIONARY ACTS -- CONVENTIONAL/INSTITUTIONAL ACTS -- INTER-PERSONAL ACTS AND THE TRIALS OF COMMUNICATION -- POLITENESS AND POWER -- Chapter 5 Gender and language -- WOMEN'S TALK -- GENDER AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- GENDER AND DRAMATIC DISCOURSE -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Whilst 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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