Language and power relations in Martin Crimp's The Country / Ayşe Didem Yakut; tez danışmanı Doç.Dr.Dilek İnan.

Tez (Yük)--Balıkesir Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı.

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Martin Crimp contributes greatly to the tradition of British playwriting with his dramatic and postdramatic plays. The scarcity of research in uncovering Crimp’s portrayal of the complex and dynamic relationships between language and power is a valuable source of motivation for this research. The thesis is designed in three sections: Firstly, Crimp’s place in the tradition of Contemporary British Drama is established and his avant-garde style and innovations in theatrical forms are analyzed. Secondly, the vigorous relationships between language and power are explored through the terminology of Barthes, Bourdieu and Foucault. The related terminology is appropriated to Crimp’s use of language in order to exert power. In the third section The Country is analyzed in terms of language that is used as a strong weapon to organize power relations among the characters in the light of the theoretical terminology. In the conclusion part, it is argued that Crimp’s language, which consists of poetry and cruelty, resists the established conventional standards and challenges any typical expectations for dramatic discourse. Instead he employs stimulating and inventive dialogues through word games and language strategies such as interrogations, repetitions, pauses, faint laughs, and euphemisms. The play’s emphasis on the denotational and connotational potency of words challenges the audiences/readers to dwell on the literal and metaphorical meanings of almost each and every word. Crimp takes his deserved place in the great tradition of British new writing due to his originality in language and his innovative attitude to theatrical form. He continues to push the boundaries of writing and theatrical representation where language is not a means of communication but on the contrary a screen preventing truth from resurfacing.