Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) - 9780415724968

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Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation\nAuthor(s): Deirdre Burton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415724968, 978-0415724968\nSynopsis\nThis 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 analysi.