ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a range of suggestions for further work in the related fields of dialogue and discourse studies. These suggestions vary from the highly specific to much wider topics concerning research in the general area of literary-linguistic practice and theory. The book relates some recent work in discourse analysis to a neglected area of linguistic-stylistics: the effects created in modern drama texts. The aim was simply to further work and ideas in these two areas simultaneously: using discourse-analysis findings to explain effects in simulated talk and using this simulated talk as a heuristic device to suggest modifications and innovations in the analysis of spoken discourse. Particularly, the author was hoping to extend the scope of application of a rigorous linguistic analysis of conversation. Given the state of both stylistics and discourse analysis, it has been necessary to proceed in rather general terms, and in a sense there are several potential other books lurking behind each chapter.
