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George Goodin - Dickens´s Dialogue: Margins of Conversation - 9780404644703 - V9780404644703
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Dickens´s Dialogue: Margins of Conversation

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Description for Dickens´s Dialogue: Margins of Conversation Hardback. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, logic, and sociology about the grammar of conversations, the author considers the rhetoric of conversation in Dicken's novels. Series: AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Dickens’s Dialogue: Margins of Conversation explores the rhetoric of Dickens’s characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations.

Bullies such as Eugene Wrayburn (Our Mutual Friend) marshal interruption, interrogation, inattention, silence, and other devices to compete for conversational power. Con artists such as Sam Weller (The Pickwick Papers) seek intimacy or reduced social distance through what they say, whether flattering ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
AMS Press
Condition
New
Series
AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-Century
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780404644703
SKU
V9780404644703
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