Persuasive Speech and the Power Play in Pinter’s Mountain Language: An Interdisciplinary Analysis

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this paper analyses power play, speech strategies, and impact in Harold Pinter’s one-act play Mountain Language (1988), which prison officials exercise over inmates their visitors through various tactics of control subjugation. The paper’s methodological framework corpus analysis is founded upon the linguistic features police speak English language (a hybrid genre spoken officers use when interrogating suspects), which, we propose, permeates discourse Language. first reflects on discourses on/of as observed literary theory, then examines discursive strategies to illustrate caused by “conduct-regulating persuasion” verbal violence. It also concept persuasive discourse, terms it may have mindset behaviour interlocutor(s).