Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) : A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation

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.