Dialogue and Discourse: A Socio-Linguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation

Abstract

1. Dialogue 1. The Stylistic Analysis of Modern Drama Texts: Some Background Remarks and a Practical Example 2. A Stylistic Study of Ionesco's The Bald Prima Donna 3. A Stylistic Study of Pinter's The Dumb Waiter 4. From Dialogue to Discourse and Back Again 2. Discourse 5. The Alienated Analyst: An Argument for Rich Data for the Discourse Analyst 6. The Linguistic Analysis of Spoken Discourse 7. Towards an Analysis of Casual Conversation 8. Suggestions for Further Research