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BL
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| Record Number
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998511
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b752881
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| Main Entry
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Sanger, Keith,1948-
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| Title & Author
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The language of drama /\ Keith Sanger.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Intertext
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xiv, 97 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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020313740X
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: 0415214238
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: 9780203137406
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: 9780415214230
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (page 97) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Are you sitting comfortably? -- What is drama? -- The place -- The set -- Characters -- Exposition -- Openings -- Realism: telling it like it is? -- Realism -- Adjacency pairs -- Real conversation at work -- The co-operative principle -- Soaps -- Presentation of character: non-standard language -- Dialect -- Standard English -- The Shakespearean protagonist -- The soliloquy -- Storytelling -- Labov's narrative categories -- Cohesion-- Structure -- The grammar of sound -- Rhythm and stress -- Book to film -- What? No narrator?
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| Abstract
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This book is unique in offering A-Level and undergraduate students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on drama. It applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays.
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| Subject
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Drama-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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| Subject
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.2
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| LC Classification
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PN1631.S26 2000eb
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