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1、ExploringtheLanguageofDramaThiseditedcollectionintroducesstudentstothestylisticanalysisofdrama.Writteninanengagingandaccessiblestyle,thecontributorsusetechniquesoflanguageanalysis,particularlyfromdiscourseanalysis,pragmaticsandcognitivelinguistics,toexplorethelanguageofplays.Explo
2、ringtheLanguageofDrama:•haschaptersummariesandfollow-upexercises;•offerspracticaladviceonhowtoanalyseaplayextractandwriteupanassignment;•includescontributionsfromsomeoftheworld’sleadingscholarsinthefield,andtheplaysanalysedrangefromtheworksofShakespearetothoseofArthurMillerandTomS
3、toppard.Thecontributorsdemonstratethevalidityofanalysingthetextofaplay,asopposedtofocusingonperformance.Dividedintofourbroadyetinter-connectinggroups,thechapters:•openupsomeofthebasicmechanismsofconversationandshowhowtheyareusedindramaticdialogue;•lookathowdiscourseanalysisandprag
4、matictheoriescanbeusedtohelpusunderstandcharacterizationindialogue;•considersomeofthecognitivepatternsunderlyingdramaticdiscourse;•focusonthenotionofspeechasaction.ContributionsfromMickShort,VimalaHerman,PaulSimpson,MarilynM.Cooper,NeilBennison,JonathanCulpeper,DonaldC.Freeman,Jea
5、nJacquesWeber,ValerieLowe,MichaelToolanandPeterK.W.Tan.BasedattheDepartmentofLinguisticsandModernEnglishLanguage,LancasterUniversity,JonathanCulpeperisLecturerandMickShortisProfessorofEnglishLanguageandLiterature.PeterVerdonkisProfessorintheDepartmentofEnglishLanguageandLiterature
6、attheUniversityofAmsterdam.TheINTERFACESeriesAlinguisticdeaftothepoeticfunctionoflanguageandaliteraryscholarindifferenttolinguisticproblemsandunconversantwithlinguisticmethods,areequallyflagrantanachronisms—RomanJakobson.Thisstatement,madeovertwenty-fiveyearsago,isnolessrelevantto
7、day,and‘flagrantanachronisms’stillabound.TheaimoftheINTERFACEseriesistoexaminetopicsatthe‘interface’oflanguagestudiesandliterarycriticismandindoingsotobuildbridgesbetweenthesetraditionally‘divided’disciplines.Alreadypublishedintheseries:NarrativeAcriticallinguisticintroductionLite
8、ratureaboutLanguageMichaelJ.Toola
