Customers who bought this item also bought

• Directory of African Libraries 2013
• Understanding Librarians: Communication is the Issue
• The Course Crafters Guide to the English Language Learner (ELL) Market 2011–2012, K–12
• Intercultural Communication. A Discourse Approach
• Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades. 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 11 and Up)
• International Country Risk Guide Annual
• Global Resource Sharing
• Language Instruction in the US
• Common Core Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts. Grades 6-8
• The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day. 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom. JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals

Studying Characters Through Conversation. Edition No. 1

VDM Publishing House, November 2009, Pages: 108

Short Title: Studying Characters Through Conversation examines how conversational frameworks from pragmatics can be used to study characters in a play through their conversational behavior. It starts with a general objective of demonstrating how co-operative and politeness principles operate in a context other than English i.e. Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. It then moves on to discussing how the characters' conversational behavior in general and their exploitation of the conversational maxims in particular, can give insights which can be useful means of studying dramatic characters. Carefully selected conversational extracts taken from the play scripts are subjected to a pragmatic analysis to show the workings of the co-operative and politeness principles. This is followed by the making of inferences about the characters, particularly about their personality traits, relationship with each other and their change and development in the progress of the plays.

Haweni, Gonfa.
Haweni Gonfa is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. She got her B. Ed degree in English from Bahir Dar University and her MA degree in Literature from Addis Ababa University.