Defamiliarization through modality of discourse: Waiting for Godot

• Demir, Mahmut Yasin ^[2] ; Saraç Durgun, H. Sezgi ^[1]
  1. [1] Akdeniz University

     Akdeniz University

     Turquía

     
  2. [2] Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi
• Localización: Philologica canariensia, ISSN 1136-3169, Nº 28, 2022, págs. 23-36
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.20420/Phil.Can.2022.465
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La desfamiliarización a través de la modalidad del discurso: En attendant Godot
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen
  • español

    En attendant Godot (1954), de Samuel Beckett, es una parodia del mundo posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La obra ejemplifica el espíritu de la época al utilizar la desfamiliarización como estrategia textual mediante la cual los personajes se valen de modales epistémicos que conducen sus intercambios conversacionales a un vacío e incertidumbre interminables. Por lo tanto, este estudio analiza las características discursivas de En attendant Godot centrándose en la modalidad como medio principal para una actitud vacía e indecisa que se crea a través de la desfamiliarización. El estudio ejemplifica, además, cómo el uso de Beckett de la desfamiliarización pone en primer plano la modalidad epistémica para crear un discurso único en su trayectoria autoral.

  • English

    Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies the spirit of the age by using defamiliarization as a textual strategy by means of which the characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertainty. Therefore, this study analyses discoursal features of Waiting for Godot by focusing on modality as the primary means for a void and indecisive attitude that is created through defamiliarization. The study further exemplifies how Beckett’s use of defamiliarization foregrounds epistemic modality to create a discourse unique in his authorial path.

• Referencias bibliográficas
  • ABDUL-HUSSEIN, A. 2016. “Discourse Analysis of Deictic Expressions in Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’”, Mustansiriyah Journal of Arts, 40(75),...
  • BECKETT, S. 1954. Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 acts. New York: Grove Press.
  • BERLINA, A. (ed. & trans.). 2017. Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • BHATTI, I. J., AZHER, M. & ABBAS, S. 2019. “Syntactic Deconstruction of Beckett’s Dramatic Text: A Transitivity Analysis of Waiting for...
  • COATES, J. 1987. “Epistemic Modality and Spoken Discourse”, Transactions of the Philological Society, 85(1), pp. 110-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.1987.tb00714.x.
  • CRAWFORD, L. 1984. “Viktor Shklovskij: Différance in Defamiliarization”, Comparative Literature, 36(3), pp. 209-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/1770260.
  • ESSLIN, M. 2014. The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • GIBBONS, A. & WHITELEY, S. 2018. Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation. Edinburgh University Press.
  • HALLIDAY, M. A. 1970. “Functional Diversity in Language as Seen from a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English”, Foundations of Language,...
  • HWANG, I. K. 2019. “The Rebellous Maxims of Conversation in Postmodern Absurdity Focusing on Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Samuel...
  • JASIM, M. H. & AZIZ, F. H. 2007. “No Repetition Where None Intended: A Stylistic Study of Repetition as a Cohesive Signal in Samuel Beckett’s...
  • JESPERSEN, O. 1924. The Philosophy of Grammar. London: George Allen & Unwin.
  • KERIMOĞLU, C. 2010. “On the Epistemic Modality Markers in Turkey Turkish: Uncertainty”, Turkish Studies, 5(4), pp. 434-478. http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.1836.
  • KİEFER, F. 1987. “On Defining Modality”, Folia Linguistica, 21(1), pp. 67-94. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin.1987.21.1.67.
  • KIEFER, F. 1997. “Presidential Address: Modality and Pragmatics”, Folia Linguistica, 31(2-3), pp. 241-253. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin.1997.31.3-4.241.
  • LEITCH, V. B., CAIN, W. E., FINKE, L. A., JOHNSON, B. E., MCGOWAN, J. & WILLIAMS, J. J. 2001. The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory...
  • LEMON, L, T., & REIS, M. J. 1965. Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
  • LYONS, J. 1977. Semantics. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • NIN, A. 1976. The Novel of the Future. New York: Collier Books.
  • PALMER, F. 1986. Mood and Modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • SCOTT, A. 2013. “A Desperate Comedy: Hope and Alienation in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’”, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45(4),...
  • SHKLOVSKY, V. 1990. Theory of Prose. Trans. Benjamin Sher. Elmwood Park, I.L: Dalkey Archive.
  • SIMPSON, P. 1993. Language, Ideology, and Point of View. London: Routledge.
  • STEINER, P. 1984. Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
  • TERRAZAS, M. 2001. “Tragic Clowns/Male Comedians: Wyndham Lewis’s ‘Enemy of the Stars’ and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot”, Wyndham Lewis...
  • ULLAH, I. et al. 2016. “A Study of Absurdity in Samuel Beckett’s Play Waiting for Godot and Albert Camus Novel The Outsider”, Global Language...
  • WILLETT, J. 1964. Brecht on Theatre. New York: Hill and Wang.