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.

• | By (Author): George Goodin
• | Publisher: AMS Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 277 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0404644708
• | ISBN-13: 9780404644703