The language of drama / by Keith Sanger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanger, Keith, 1948- author.

Series:

Intertext (London, England)

Intertext

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Language of Drama* applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays, ranging from Shakespeare to Stoppard, Coronation Street to The Archers * is written in a clear, user-friendly style by a practising teacher * is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned artwork by a Viz cartoonist * combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further activities.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Are you sitting comfortably?; The place; The set; Characters; Exposition; Openings; Realism: telling it like it is?; Adjacency pairs; Real conversation at work; The co-operative principle; Presentation of character: non-standard language; Dialect; Standard English; The Shakespearean protagonist; The soliloquy; Storytelling; Labov's narrative categories; Cohesion; Structure; The grammar of sound; Rhythm and stress; Book to film; What? No narrator?; Index of terms; Index of texts and writers; References and further reading

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-33590-4

0-203-13740-X

9780203137406

OCLC:

475874445