Communication in Drama: a Pragmatic Approach

by Dr. Umesh S. Jagadale

Author	: Dr. Umesh S. Jagadale
Publisher	: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages	: 152
Release	: 2014-08-25
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1482817349

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COMMUNICATION IN DRAMA: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH is a book based on the authors research work in theatrical communication. Theatre has its own language. The verbal and non-verbal communication operating in the theatrical context is a central concern of this book. The book offers an authentic view to explore numerous intricacies of communication in drama using Pragmatics as a perspective. Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics. It basically studies the use of language in various contexts pertaining to real-life communication. However, the communication in drama differs from the communication in real life. Drama is scripted and performed in the multivalent contexts of real life and theater at the same time. At the backdrop of such contextual dynamics, the existing analytical models of communication in Pragmatics are observed to have their own shortcomings, since they are basically evolved to analyze the communication in real life and not in drama. Hence, peculiarly to assess the speech situations in drama, the author has evolved a new pragmatic-analytical model in this book. The new model is authenticated by using it to analyse five milestone Indian plays in English. Precisely, the book is a pragmatic analysis of communication in drama.

Pragmatic Approaches to Drama

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Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 510
Release	: 2020-10-12
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 9004440267

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This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.

Analysing the Pragmatics of Speech Acts in Sitcom and Drama Audiovisual Genres

by Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja

Author	: Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages	: 166
Release	: 2020-07-28
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1527557359

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This book provides positive evidence regarding the validity of the language used in sitcom and drama audiovisual genres and its possible applicability to the teaching of pragmatics in English as second and foreign language contexts. The first part of the text includes a description of pragmatics and its components, speech act theories development, and the use of audiovisual input for the teaching of pragmatic aspects. The second section is devoted to the sitcom and drama transcripts analysis of direct and indirect realisations of multiple speech acts as pragmalinguistic resources, sociopragmatic variables that may influence conversation, such as politeness needs and context, and interactional patterns, including turn-taking, sequences and adjacency pairs. The book provides insightful quantitative and qualitative results which will serve to confirm, along with previous research, the usefulness and validity of this type of input, not only for teaching pragmatics, but also for the development of tasks and activities with different pedagogical outcomes and students’ needs. As such, this volume is a useful resource for pragmaticians and discourse analysis scholars since its complete analysis of transcripts justifies the validity of audiovisual input and its different applications.

Pragmatic Approaches to Drama

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Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 510
Release	: 2020-10-12
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 9004440267

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This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.

Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy

by Zsuzsanna I. Abrams

Author	: Zsuzsanna I. Abrams
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 391
Release	: 2020-08-27
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1108490158

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Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

by Keir Elam

Author	: Keir Elam
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 269
Release	: 2003-12-16
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1134465122

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Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication.

The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

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Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 251
Release	: 2024-08-29
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 9004704698

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Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to teach us today? Does it have a serious, philosophical and religious meaning, or is it just a form of literary play, full of adventures, magic, sex, violence, and religion? This volume studies the reception of the novel in the last hundred years, showing also the most promising and diverse research perspectives for the future. Apuleius claimed that a philosopher must possess a mirror; perhaps, his novel is a mirror for us to look into.

Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin

by Luis Unceta Gómez

Author	: Luis Unceta Gómez
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 425
Release	: 2022-09-08
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 1009302272

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Politeness serves to manage social relations or is wielded as an instrument of power. Through good manners, people demonstrate their educational background and social rank. This is the first book to bring together the most recent scholarship on politeness and impoliteness in Ancient Greek and Latin, signalling both its universal and its culture-specific traits. Leading scholars analyse texts by canonical classical authors (including Plato, Cicero, Euripides, and Plautus), as well as non-literary sources, to provide glimpses into the courtesy and rudeness of Greek and Latin speakers. A wide range of interdisciplinary approaches is adopted, namely pragmatics, conversation analysis, and computational linguistics. With its extensive introduction, the volume introduces readers to one of the most dynamic fields of Linguistics, while demonstrating that it can serve as an innovative tool in philological readings of classical texts.

Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues

by Terry Walker

Author	: Terry Walker
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages	: 367
Release	: 2007-05-15
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9027292604

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This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of thou and you. Previous research on thou and you has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.