تحليل عناصر نيت و ترس نهفته در گفتمان شخصيت هاي نمايشنامه سرايدار اثر هارولد پينتر واز ديدگاه اصول همكاري و تلويح زباني گرايس

The analysis of characterʹs inner intention and threat in Harold Pinterʹs The Caretaker: from the perspective of Griceʹs co-operative principles and maxims

This study is an attempt to analyze charactersʹ discourse and dialogue, in Harold Pinterʹs The Caretaker within Griceʹs framework to show the framework can reveal the charactersʹ intention and anxiety. The results reveal that characters hide their inner intentions and even their identity because of some social and psychological reasons. Mostly, they suffer from lack of social security and identity, because of psychological and social status(problems) of modern man, particularly in western societies. This framework(Griceʹs theory of co-operative principles) proves itself applicable to literary analysis, reading and analyzing literature, and literary criticism. Such a linguistic framework which has been focused to be useful for such purposes is Griceʹs co-operative principles and conversational implicatures. Since Griceʹs theory of co-operative principles focuses on conversation and dialogue and one of the important parts of drama is dialogue, it is suitable to analyze pieces of drama in the light of Griceʹs model. Harold Pinter, the famous modern American playwright uses a particular style of language, showing how characters smartly hide their inner intention, behind their language. They try to communicate with others but every time they do, communication is broken down. Through analyzing the charactersʹ dialogues in The Caretaker from the perspective of Griceʹs co-operative principles and maxims, the aim of this study is to try to penetrate within charactersʹ mind in order to find their inner intention and threat