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Twentieth-century drama dialogue as ordinary talk : speaking between the lines

In this volume, Susan Mandala seeks to reconcile the work of linguistics and literary critics, bringing the work of both to bear in her interdisciplinary study of dramatic dialogue
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, England, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
138 pages ; 23 cm
9780754651055, 0754651053
87737833
Drama dialogue and talk
Approaches to talk
Lifting the smokescreen : the language of conversation in Harold Pinter's The homecoming
Language and social class in Arnold Wesker's Roots
Brave silences : understanding what is not said in Terence Rattigan's In praise of love
Talking at the edge : Alan Ayckbourn's Just between ourselves