@article{2015,title={THE INTERPLAY of DIRECT and INDIRECT POLITICS IN PINTER’S the BIRTHDAY PARTY AND ONE FOR the ROAD},abstractNode={This paper deals with the interplay of the direct and indirect politics in Pinter’s The Birthday Party(1958) and One for the Road (1984). Harold Pinter, a twentieth century leading British playwright, was always a public annoyance due to his obscure ideas as a citizen and his political canon which in the1980s led critics to make re-interpretations of the changes in Pinter’s political views. The politics of Pinter’s drama significantly differs from those in the canons of the other playwrights what, in fact, made us exhibit the gradual shift from the implied politics to the direct politics in the above mentioned plays. To focus on ideological nature of language means committing ourselves to the view that language use is socially determined and rests upon common-sense assumptions.},author={Ömer ŞEKERCİ},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}