Michael Frayn’n Here Adl Oyununda li kinin Dili

Language is a kind of tool to express ourselves and the universe. It is a fact that through language people have a chance toreflect their inner world. According to linguistics, women and men use language in different ways. The difference is obviousespecially in their conversations. Women are more likely to be people-oriented and to stress interpersonal concerns while mentend to be more object-oriented and primarily interested in matters of the outside world. As Donohue states, in conversation,men are more likely to emphasize the confirmation while women stress the support. (Donohue, 1999;8). Language is also one ofthe important elements of drama and it gives some clues about the playwright’s aim. It expresses the major and minor characters’mind, conflict, desires and struggles. The language of a play is not a language of words which represents reality, but a languagewhich classifies and controls subjects, power and status of the characters.In this study, the play of one of the well-known contemporary English playwright, Michael Frayn’s Here is going to beanalysed in terms of its language in order to show the characters’ identity, their feeling of possession and the needs forcommunication. The aspects of language such as pragmatics and syntax and also the gender factor in the usage of language aregoing to be analysed to foreground the reason of lack of communication in the play. Thus, in order to examine relationshipbetween the major characters the function of the other dramatic elements, such as place, time and the minor character of the playare going to be studied.Michael Frayn deals with a newly married couple’s difficulty of having a good communication/relation in a two-act play, Here.In the play Frayn points out that although it is believed that people can solve every problem through communication, sometimesthey cannot achieve to have a dialogue if it is created artificially. Frayn, in the play Here, shows a newly married couple’s effort ofordering the world which needs understanding each other and having a good communication. This chaotic atmosphere becomeseven more difficult with the challenging usage of language. In the play, there is a couple, Cath and Phil, at the beginning of theirmarriage and they try to organize their new flat together. The characters force themselves to understand each other, but justbecause of the complexity of human nature and also the life, they have difficulty to reach the same point. Frayn gives this conflictby creating an atmosphere with a new setting and a nearly married couple. Throughout the play, because of the amb