Politeness Devices in Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Politeness Devices in Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of politeness devices is completed against the discourse of Betrayal, a play by Harold Pinter. Since humans take part in a never-ending dialogue with the alter or with the ego, the article draws attention to the centrality of politeness in the ‘iceberg-text’ of any usual conversation. Even if such conversations appear within the framework of fictionality, the meanings are not counterfeit, because they are not changed by the conventions of fiction. Motto: „The word belongs half to those who utter it and half to those who listen to it”.(Montaigne)

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