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Dramatic discourse : dialogue as interaction in plays

In this book drama, a long neglected field of study, is examined from a linguistic perspective. Shakespeare, Pinter, Osborne, Beckett, Chekhov and Shaw are just some of the dramatists whose work is drawn upon.
Print Book, English, 1995
Routledge, London, 1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 331 s
9780415082419, 9780415184519, 0415082412, 0415184517
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Introduction 1. The Ethnography of Speaking 2. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 3. Turn Sequencing 4. Pragmatics 5. Gender and Language