Dramatic Discourse

Author : Vimala Herman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134668406
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Discourse written by Vimala Herman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging and comprehensive study uses the major frameworks of modern discourse studies to analyse dramatic dialogue.

Author : Vimala Herman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134668392
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Discourse written by Vimala Herman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774303
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Language of Drama written by Jonathan Culpeper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Language of Drama 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. The 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: open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse focus on the notion of speech as action there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment

Author : Michael Issacharoff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804717090
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse as Performance written by Michael Issacharoff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to apply contemporary linguistic and semiotic research to drama, Discourse as Performance is an investigation into theatrical discourse - the specifically theatrical use of language in the broadest sense, from verbal utterance to non verbal uses comprising the visual elements of gesture, facial expression, movement, costume, players' bodies, properties, and decor. The book is in three parts. In the first part, the author deals with theatrical discourse proper and distinguishes between its two main modes: dialogue and stage directions. Both modes address the problem of the specificity of theatrical discourse in contrast to other types of discourse, both literary and non-literary. The dialogue raises the questions of who speaks in a play (author, characters, actors) and to whom; the stage directions raise the question of reading a play, as opposed to seeing it performed onstage. The author links these issues to speech act theory and intertextuality.

Author : Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521472210
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama and Politics in the English Civil War written by Susan Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1642 an ordinance closed the theatres of England. Critics and historians have assumed that the edict was to be firm and inviolate. Susan Wiseman challenges this assumption and argues that the period 1640 to 1660 was not a gap in the production and performance of drama nor a blank space between 'Renaissance drama' and the 'Restoration stage'. Rather, throughout the period, writers focused instead on a range of dramas with political perspectives, from republican to royalist. This group included the short pamphlet dramas of the 1640s and the texts produced by the writers of the 1650s, such as William Davenant, Margaret Cavendish and James Shirley. In analysing the diverse forms of dramatic production of the 1640s and 1650s, Wiseman reveals the political and generic diversity produced by the changes in dramatic production, and offers insights into the theatre of the Civil War.

Author : Valerio Fissore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Discourse written by Valerio Fissore and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134954980
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama written by Keir Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1980-10-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727973X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.

Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Paragraph, and Sentence Structure in Selected Philippine Languages written by Robert E. Longacre and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Renascence Drama written by William Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: