The aim of thsi article is to examine the construction of identities in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party". It reviews the stylistic treatment of identity and the individual in drama and proposes a method for analysing identity in literary talk in terms of the speech behaviour of what Goffman (1981) calls a "figure". It illustrates how the method can be applied to the construction of the discursive identities of the main characters in "The Birthday Party" using the categories of "discourse" and "situated" identities used by Zimmerman (1998).
Bowles, H.t. (2010). 'Who do you think you are talking to?’ : The construction of discourse identities in The Birthday Party. TEXTUS, 22, 53-81.
'Who do you think you are talking to?’ : The construction of discourse identities in The Birthday Party
BOWLES, HUGO THOMAS
2010-01-01
Abstract
The aim of thsi article is to examine the construction of identities in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party". It reviews the stylistic treatment of identity and the individual in drama and proposes a method for analysing identity in literary talk in terms of the speech behaviour of what Goffman (1981) calls a "figure". It illustrates how the method can be applied to the construction of the discursive identities of the main characters in "The Birthday Party" using the categories of "discourse" and "situated" identities used by Zimmerman (1998).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
