1st Edition
Language and Characterisation People in Plays and Other Texts
By Jonathan Culpeper
Copyright 2001
344 Pages
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Routledge
464 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
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Routledge
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Textual Explorations General Editors- Mick Short, Lancaster University Elena Semino, Lancaster University The focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, and the theoretical issues which such work raises. Textual Explorations will include books that cover studies of literary authors, genres and other groupings, stylistic studies of non-literary texts,... Read more
1: Modelling Characterisation PART ONE: CHARACTERISATION AND THE MIND 2: Character categories and impressions of character 3: Inferring character from texts PART TWO: CHARACTERISATION AND THE TEXT 4: Textual clues in characterisation 5: (Im)politeness and characterisation 6: Conclusion: The characterisation of Katherina in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Conclusion Further directions and exercises References Index
Biography
Jonathan Culpeper is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University.
