Affiliation:
1. Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
Abstract
Abstract
This article explores dimensions of dramatic structure which the literary linguistic analysis of a play text can illuminate within
an integrated model of dramatic significance. The play to be examined is John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the
Western World, known for its lexical richness, denseness of dramatic expression and not least the structural
creativity of its Hiberno-English, all of which provide an abundant fund of textual semiotics for the present drama-specific
literary linguistic analysis. The dimensions of the play investigated are (i) those of its ‘constitution’, which linguistically
comprises dialogue and stage directions, and characterisation, plot and setting as traditional constituents of dramatic structure
in their own right; and (ii) those of its ‘realisation’ as literary work, staging production and theatre performance and the
associated addressivity of materially the same play text at each of these levels. As such, it will be shown that the employment
of, and further development of, a linguistic model of social semiotics (after Halliday
1978; Fairclough 2003) enables a unified account to be given of the dramatic
meanings a play text expresses at these two levels of its internal construction and its external actualisation.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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