’Your Language is Forbidden’: Language Negation As Political Oppression in Pinter’s Mountain Language

This paper examines Harold Pinter’s late play Mountain Language as a depiction of political oppression specifically rooted in linguistic oppression. The play presents a “mountain people” who have been forbidden to use their “mountain language” by a coercive state authority. The play contrasts the br...

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Main Author: Goodspeed Andrew
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Sciendo 2019-05-01
Series:Darnioji daugiakalbystė
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/sm-2019-0001