Turn-taking in Shakespeare

by Morgan, Oliver, (Researcher of English literature)

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Title Statements

Full title :Turn-taking in Shakespeare / Oliver Morgan.

Summary

Focusing on when Shakespeare's characters speak, rather than what they say, this text investigates what it means for them to speak in or out of turn, to interrupt or overlap, or to fail to speak at all, and how it informs debates about editing, rhetoric, prosody, and early modern performance practices.

Whenever people talk to one another there are at least two things going on at once. First, and most obviously, there is an exchange of speech. Second, and slightly less obviously, there is a negotiation about how that exchange is organised-about whose turn it is to talk at any given moment. Linguists call this second, organisational level of activity 'turn-taking' and since the late 1970s it has been central to the way in which spoken interaction is understood. In spite of its obvious relevance to the study of drama, however, turn-taking has received little attention from critics and editors of Shakespeare. Turn-taking in Shakespeare offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic text by reversing the priorities of traditional literary analysis. Rather than focussing on what characters say, it focuses on when they speak. Rather than focussing on how they talk, it focuses on how they gain access to the floor. Its central argument is that the turn-taking patterns of Shakespeare's plays are a part of what Emrys Jones has called their 'basic structural shaping'-as fundamental to dialogue as rhythm is to verse. The book investigates what it means for a character to speak in or out of turn, to interrupt or overlap with a previous speaker, to pause before speaking, or to fail to speak at all.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

Notes

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (282 pages) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191873614, 0191873616, 9780192573391, 019257339X
oclc:on1126076313
LC Classification:PR3071
Dewey Decimal:822.33

Speaking when you're spoken to -- Figures of dialogue -- Apostrophizing the king -- Taking asides -- Have I finished? -- Aposiopesis and the comforts of rhetoric -- The terminal comma -- The play of line and turn.

Subjects

Characters and characteristics Conversation Criticism, interpretation, etc Dialogue dans la littérature Dialogue in literature Parole dans la littérature Shakespeare, William Speech in literature Theater