Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
| Author: | Deirdre Burton | ISBN: | 9781317932239 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | January 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Deirdre Burton |
| ISBN: | 9781317932239 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | January 10, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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 audiences’ intuitions about dramatic dialogue. The second section – Discourse – uses these studies to develop a powerful and general model of spoken discourse. As well as accounting for the utterance-by-utterance organization of dramatic texts, it provides a descriptive model for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation. Literary texts and natural conversation are used to illustrate each other.
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 audiences’ intuitions about dramatic dialogue. The second section – Discourse – uses these studies to develop a powerful and general model of spoken discourse. As well as accounting for the utterance-by-utterance organization of dramatic texts, it provides a descriptive model for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation. Literary texts and natural conversation are used to illustrate each other.
