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Stylistics and Rhetoric:

Stylistics and Rhetoric:. Stylistic Applications to Drama. Analysing Dramatic Language. Workshop As you will see from Chapter 5, there are many different approaches to analysing drama. In this session you will work in pairs/small groups to UNDERSTAND and EXPLAIN the different approaches.

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Stylistics and Rhetoric:

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  1. Stylistics and Rhetoric: Stylistic Applications to Drama

  2. Analysing Dramatic Language Workshop As you will see from Chapter 5, there are many different approaches to analysing drama. In this session you will work in pairs/small groups to UNDERSTAND and EXPLAIN the different approaches. First we will read the texts you will be analysing. Then, the teacher will give you an example of the sort of explanation and analysis required.

  3. Analysing Dramatic Language Instructions • Read the section from Chapter 5 on one method or ‘tool’ for analysing drama. (The teacher will assign the section) • Discuss the section with your partner • Make sure you understand it • Write down 2-3 questions to ask the teacher • Discuss your understanding of the analysis ‘tool’ with the teacher • Try to apply the analysis to a drama extract provided • Make a 5 minute presentation to the rest of the class explaining what the tool is and demonstrating it by showing your analysis of the extract.

  4. Analysing Dramatic Language 5.4.1 Turn quantity and length 5.4.2* Exchange sequences 5.4.3* Production Errors 5.4.4* The cooperative principle 5.4.5* Speech acts 5.4.6* Presuppositions 5.4.7* Status marked through language 5.4.8* Register 5.4.9 Speech and silence

  5. Analysing Dramatic LanguageAn example approach 5.4.1 Turn quantity and length How much a character talks can usually show: a) how important the character is, or b) how important the character thinkshe is.

  6. 5.4.1 Turn quantity and length In extract B Lane is the servant who at first gives the expected, short and polite answers to Algernon. Here is a typical exchange where the servant gives a two-word answer: Algernon … have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell? Lane. Yes, sir. Later, though the pattern changes when Algernon asks a longer question and implies his servant has been drinking the champagne. Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.

  7. 5.4.1 Turn quantity and length Lane takes the question literally, does not confirm or deny that he is drinking the champagne and speaks in informative mode. His last two contributions are 27 and 41 lines long, and both of them longer than is employer. WHY? Is Lane’s turn is longer because he thinks he is more important, or because Algernon has broken the rules of employer–servant exchange Other explanations?

  8. Analysing Dramatic Language 5.4.1 Turn quantity and length 5.4.2* Exchange sequences 5.4.3* Production Errors 5.4.4* The cooperative principle 5.4.5* Speech acts 5.4.6* Presuppositions 5.4.7* Status marked through language 5.4.8* Register 5.4.9 Speech and silence

  9. Workshop: Presentation Phase Presenters should: • Present your explanation of the analysis tool • Be as clear and interesting as possible • Use the visualizer to show examples of what you mean. Listeners should: • have your books CLOSED • write notes. They will be useful for Assignment Three • ask questions if you don’t understand.

  10. Assignment Three Make a stylistic analysis of one of the three extracts provided in today’s lesson. Choose the approach or approaches which you think best fits the extract. (You can use a combination) Your assignment should be word processed and no longer than 250 words. Deadline: Wed. May 16th (Monday group) Thursday May 17th (Wednesday group)

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