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Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context
This edited collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of of language analysis techniques.
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 28, 1998
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About the author
Peter Verdonk
19 books2 followersPeter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam, where he started teaching in the early 1970s, after a career in maritime law. His main interests lie in rhetoric, literary criticism, discourse analysis, narratology and cognitive poetics.
His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (Routledge 1993), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (with Roger D. Sell, Rodopi 1994), Twentieth-century Fiction (with Jean Jacques Weber, Routledge 1995), and Exploring the Language of Drama (with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short, Routledge 1998). His most recent book is Stylistics in the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series (Oxford University Press 2002).
He is a member of the editorial board of Language and Literature (Sage) and co-editor (with Gerard Steen en Willie van Peer) of the book series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (Benjamins). He is an honorary member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
On his retirement, Peter Verdonk was honoured with a festschrift entitled Contextualized Stylistics, edited by Tony Bex, Michael Burke and Peter Stockwell (Rodopi 2000).
His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (Routledge 1993), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (with Roger D. Sell, Rodopi 1994), Twentieth-century Fiction (with Jean Jacques Weber, Routledge 1995), and Exploring the Language of Drama (with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short, Routledge 1998). His most recent book is Stylistics in the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series (Oxford University Press 2002).
He is a member of the editorial board of Language and Literature (Sage) and co-editor (with Gerard Steen en Willie van Peer) of the book series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (Benjamins). He is an honorary member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
On his retirement, Peter Verdonk was honoured with a festschrift entitled Contextualized Stylistics, edited by Tony Bex, Michael Burke and Peter Stockwell (Rodopi 2000).
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January 5, 2022
Chapter 3 and chapter 10
October 10, 2018
This turned out to be really great book, not only for literature and language students but also for their theachers.
Althouhg I am, as a linguist, familiar with Grice's and Austin's work about speech acts and pragmatics, the book helped me to combine it with drama plays and theater.
It was actually refreshing to read about drama plays and theater through sppech act's analysis.
I would recommend this book to my students (because it can serve as a workbook) but also to anyone who is interested in broadening up their knowledge about drama and pragmalinguistics.
Althouhg I am, as a linguist, familiar with Grice's and Austin's work about speech acts and pragmatics, the book helped me to combine it with drama plays and theater.
It was actually refreshing to read about drama plays and theater through sppech act's analysis.
I would recommend this book to my students (because it can serve as a workbook) but also to anyone who is interested in broadening up their knowledge about drama and pragmalinguistics.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews