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标题：Defamiliarization through modality of discourse: Waiting for Godot
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作者：Mahmut Yasin Demir ; H. Sezgi Saraç Durgun
期刊名称：Philologica Canariensia
印刷版ISSN：1136-3169
电子版ISSN：2386-8635
出版年度：2022
卷号：28
页码：23-36
DOI：10.20420/Phil.Can.2022.465
语种：English
出版社：Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
摘要：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.
关键词：epistemic modality;defamiliarization;theatre of the absurd;Waiting for Godot;Samuel Beckett