Mastering the “Term of Art”: Linguistic Avoidance in David Mamet’s Oleanna

  • سال انتشار: 1403
  • محل انتشار: مجله زبانشناسی کاربردی و ادبیات کاربردی: دینامیک و پیشرفت، دوره: 12، شماره: 2
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_JALDA-12-2_012
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 118
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نویسندگان

Mohammad Hossein Mahdavi Nejhad

M.A. in English Language and Literature, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran

Reza Bagheri Nevisi

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

Arezoo Bahadori Moghaddam

PhD Candidate in English Language Teaching, Torbat-e Heydarieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran

چکیده

Many critics have read David Mamet’s (۱۹۹۳) Oleanna as a locale for issues of gender, misogyny, and sexual harassment. Another group, however, believe that it is the potentials of language and its manipulation which are central to the play, which need to be delved into. In line with the latter view, the present article assumes that the interactions of both John and Carol in this two-character play exemplify an interview in which they constantly attempt to preserve their faces through adopting a number of linguistic avoidance strategies. Therefore, by drawing upon linguistic avoidance frameworks suggested by Janney (۱۹۹۹) and Anchimbe (۲۰۰۹), the present article links up linguistic avoidance to Spencer-Oatey’s (۲۰۰۰) notion of rapport management and shows to what extent John and Carol adopt these strategies to attend to their personal and professional face needs at the cost of further alienation and frustration. The findings of this paper are also an affirmation of Žegarac and Spencer-Oatey (۲۰۱۳) who argue that participants’ self-oriented perspective due to face concerns may cause difficulties within joint projects, which is a barricade to spirit of cooperation and reciprocity.

کلیدواژه ها

linguistic avoidance, rapport management, cooperation, face concerns, Oleanna

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