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 writing voices telling stories authorial: reflecting the playwright's affinity of writing the character, how the character speaks; the way the dialogue is usually written by the author. Grice's maxims: An effective play does not only mimic dialogue irl, but also searches how to utilise the best trajectory and arc for relaying information for the play. Maxim of quantity: be informative, necessary as required. not anything that is more informative than required, not important to exchange. Maxim of quality: be truthful, nothing for which u lack evidence; in terms of you and me. The characters are contributing truth. Maxim of relation: be relevant. omit irrelevant information. Maxim of manner: clarity in terms of what you want to do with the dialogue; be perspicuous. be brief, orderly, avoid language difficult to understand. LANGUAGE  Its use presupposes a speaker or voice, (real or imaginary) and listener; a voice not mediated by another voice: speak or listen to speech; wr...

nominalisation : using nouns instead of verbs, removes actor, framed as an event instead of an action, obscuring actors and agents. e.g.: burnt/polluted —>  burning/pollution (incidents) Discourse: countable noun = discourses. Discourse:  -potentially constitutive, can be refuted and challenged. -Construct identities, reinforce status quo through repetition of dominant discourses (reinforcing power imbalances). -contribute to transformation of identities; articulation of counter/alternative discourse— a constant struggle for a prime point in the hierarchal narrative.  WE USE THE LANGUAGE IN A TEXT TO UNCOVER UNDERLYING DISCOURSES No matter how creative one might think themselves to be, we only realistically speak opinions that echo the words already spoken in our respective communities. To say something truly original would be incomprehensible—there is no shared knowledge to build on. Most of us will never actually come up with something original. (the more exposure we...

 How the LGBTQ utilise language to gauge potential allies/partners/romantic interests by tentative/blunt methods.  1. foreground/background information based on several perceptions of the interlocutor (visual & verbal presentations, point of location and time). 2. ambiguity of expressions, keywords/diction used to elicit/prime certain desirable responses. 3.