1st Edition
Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk Speaking Between the Lines
By Susan Mandala
Copyright 2007
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation. After an account of the often-heated debates between linguists and critics concerning the analysis of drama dialogue as talk, four plays are considered: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming,... Read more
Contents: Preface. Drama dialogue and talk; Approaches to talk; Lifting the smokescreen: the language of conversation in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming; Language and social class in Arnold Wesker's Roots; Brave silences; understanding what is not said in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love; Talking at the edge: Alan Ayckbourn's Just Between Ourselves; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Susan Mandala is Lecturer in English Language Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland, UK.
