Degree Year
1986
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Advisor(s)
Robert Pierce
Keywords
Pinter, Kinda of Alaska, No Man's Land
Abstract
My purpose, however, lies not only in a desire to contribute insight to the critical canon on Pinter. I also wish to offer some insight into the literary application of speech act theory. Among the writers I will discuss are Austin, Searle, Altieri, Pratt, Derrida, and Fish. This application leads to my belief that drama is the literary genre to which speech act theory is most appropriate and applicable (in much the same way as the poem serves as the New Critical model). I will begin with a brief introduction to speech act theory, move on to my analysis of the plays, make general inferences about the plays and the theory, and then reach for conclusions.
Repository Citation
Britt, Brian M., ""Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis of Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and No Man's Land" (1986). Honors Papers. 611.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/611
