1st Edition
Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation
By Deirdre Burton
Copyright 1980
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Dialogue 1. The Stylistic Analysis of Modern Drama Texts: Some Background Remarks and a Practical Example 2. A Stylistic Study of Ionesco’s The Bald Prima Donna 3. A Stylistic Study of Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter 4. From Dialogue to Discourse and Back Again 2. Discourse 5. The Alienated Analyst: An Argument for Rich Data for the Discourse Analyst 6. The Linguistic Analysis of Spoken Discourse 7. Towards an Analysis of Casual Conversation 8. Suggestions for Further Research
Biography
Burton, Deirdre
