LANGUAGE BETWEEN IDENTIFICATION AND NON-IDENTIFICATION
LANGUAGE BETWEEN IDENTIFICATION AND NON-IDENTIFICATION

Summary/Abstract: Research undertaken in this paper aims at analysing the communicative acts initiated and established by Harold Pinter’s characters, from strained conversations on seemingly trivial matters to peripheral narratives and jokes carried out at random and with no clearly cut connection with what seems to be at stake. As part of the much favoured ritual of the non-sequitur, where Harold Pinter proved a master of silences and pauses, all these gestures of pseudo-communication, in reality obscure language games, derive their forcefulness from the speakers’ ability to avoid, by all means, disclosing their true intentions or desires. Speakers are well aware of the fact that such a linguistic exposure would be equivalent to losing their status and the world they put all their efforts to construct and display.

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