Twentieth-century drama dialogue as ordinary talk
Subtitle: speaking between the lines
By: by Susan Mandala.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754651055
Subjects: Pinter, Harold, -- 1930-; Wesker, Arnold, -- 1932-; Rattigan, Terence; Ayckbourn, Alan, -- 1939-; English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Dialogue; Discourse analysis, Literary; Conversation analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Drama dialogue and talk; title: Approaches to talk; title: Lifting the smokescreen : the language of conversation in Harold Pinter's The homecoming; title: Language and social class in Arnold Wesker's Roots; title: Brave silences : understanding what is not said in Terence Rattigan's In praise of love; title: Talking at the edge : Alan Ayckbourn's Just between ourselves.