Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Drama Dialogue and Talk; 2 Approaches to Talk; 3 Lifting the Smokescreen: The Language of Conversation in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming; 4 Language and Social Class in Arnold Wesker's Roots; 5 Brave Silences: Understanding What Is Not Said in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love; 6 Talking at the Edge: Alan Ayckbourn's Just Between Ourselves; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
