{"product_id":"exploring-the-language-of-drama-9780415137942","title":"Exploring the Language of Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExploring the Language of Drama\u003c\/em\u003e introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eopen up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elook at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econsider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efocus on the notion of speech as action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethere is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. From dramatic text to dramatic performance, 3. Turn management in drama, 4. Odd talk: studying discourses of incongruity, 5. Implicature, convention and The Taming of the Shrew, 6. Accessing character through conversation: Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul, 7. (Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue, 8. ‘Catch[ing] the nearest way’: Macbeth and cognitive metaphor, 9. Three models of power in David Mamet’s Oleanna, 10. ‘Unhappy’ confessions in The Crucible: a pragmatic explanation, 11. The give and take of talk, and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, 12. Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn’s The Revengers’ Comedies, Bibliography, Index","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402072695127,"sku":"9780415137942","price":176.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploring-the-language-of-drama-9780415137942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}