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EGL403

Categories: Part 4, University Courses

About Course

EGL403 (The Language of Drama) is the third Stylistics course in the department of English, OAU. It focuses on the stylistic analysis of drama texts. In the course, you will learn the nature and the stylistic analytical procedures of drama texts.

What Will You Learn?

  • How language is used in drama
  • The literary and linguistic similarities and differences of drama and other genres of literature
  • The elements of drama
  • Forms of drama
  • The multimodality of drama
  • Theories used to interpret drama texts
  • Etc.

Course Content

The Nature of Dramatic Discourses
The nature of any text is its distinguishing features. To understand the nature of drama, you need to learn its literary and linguistic characteristics. You also need to get familiar with the meaning of drama, the forms of drama, the verbal and visual resources of drama, etc. These are what you are expected to have learnt at the end of this topic.

  • What does the language of drama look like?
    14:51
  • The Meaning of Drama
    06:41
  • Elements of Drama (Part One)
    14:21
  • Elements of Drama (Part Two)
    09:46
  • Forms of Drama
    06:41
  • The Verbal Resources of Drama
    12:03
  • The Visual Resources of Drama
    14:00

The Stylistics of Drama vs Prose and Poetry
Here, we will be comparing how language is used in drama and how it is used in prose and poetry. You will learn the similarities and dissimilarities between drama and other kinds of texts.

Schema Theory
Schema is an indispensable aspect in the analytical process of texts. You will learn what schema means and how to apply this theory to the successful analysis of drama texts.

The Multimodality of the Stylistics of Drama
Drama is a literary genre that is multimodal, i.e., it makes use of more than one mode. Hence, when analysing a dramatic text, you are expected to use a multimodal approach. This chapter aims to teach you how to create a balanced stylistic analysis of drama using a multimodal approach.

Style Markers

Relevant Approaches to the Stylistics of Drama
There are different approaches to analyse dramatic discourses. Here, you will learn the various ways of analysing drama.

Conversational Analysis

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