The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

several near-, mid- or far-pasts). Consequently there are many questions you might ask yourself about the organisation of any na ...

the past with the present, and suggesting a complex interaction between them. Greg, Stevie Caine and the ghost-like figure on th ...

Far-past further on: After graduating, Sophie lacks confidence about her own art work; decides to go into arts administration. F ...

for very active reading because the reader has to either choose between alternatives or allow for all the different possibilitie ...

Faulkner, W. 1963, As I Lay Dying , New York, Penguin London. First published in 1930 in the United States. Frame, J. 1989, ‘Jan ...

chapter six Dial oguing We usually understand by the term dialogue a conversation between two or more people. So the important f ...

word. For example, in a radio piece the voice might be multitracked so there are several different versions of it, and it dialog ...

Create a text based on a contemporary form of dialoguing such as an email exchange or a TV chat show. Create a dialogue in an u ...

Q.What time will you be home tonight? A. As soon as I can. (acquiescent) Q.What time will you be home tonight? A.Time is in your ...

fact, all dialogue ranges from realist to non-realist. Realist dialogue is based on the conversation we are used to hearing arou ...

1 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE? 2 NO,THIS IS THE FIRST TIME...OK,THANK YOU VERY MUCH 1 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE? 2 NO,THIS IS THE ...

though a reference to the law reappears later, ‘she a lawyer too’. This reminds us of the probate case, and holds out a tentativ ...

‘Uh, seventy-six. Eighty-six.’ ‘What’s ninety-three minus seven?’ ‘1914–1918.’ ‘What are the dates of the First World War?’ ‘Oka ...

An important aspect of Johnstone’s work is his emphasis on the inevitability of power relationships within dialogue. In this res ...

Example 6.4: Dialogue as power struggle GEORGE: I’m tired, dear... it’s late... and besides... MARTHA: I don’t know what you’re ...

You may want to make one of the participants adopt low status initially, while the other adopts high status. Bear in mind that t ...

Burton points out, both characters are continually questioning and con- firming matters that they both know, that they know they ...

is called chatting where people says things to each other which aren’t questions and answers and aren’t connected. Then she said ...

POLYLOGUING Although dialogue technically involves two people talking to each other, it may include several people and many diff ...

political debate, the opinions of both sides may merely reflect the party- line, though their own individual biases may sometime ...