Dramatic Discourse
Subtitle: Dialogue as Interaction in Plays
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780415184519
First sentence: One of the major distinctions to be made in the study of language as spoken discourse is that speech is always contextually 'situated' and occasioned: it occurs among specific participants, who use speech for various purposes, in certain settings and across various apans of time.