TY - GEN AU - Faiza Hassan Mohamed Saleh AU - Ola Mohamed Hafez , TI - A discourse analysis of power conflict and its resolution in Harold Pinter's the birthday party , the dumb waiter and the caretaker / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Faiza Hassan Mohamed Saleh , KW - Conflict KW - Conuersation Analysis KW - Discourse Analysis N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Arts - Department Of English; Issued also as CD N2 - The powerful - powerless discourse in the selected played is mainly analyzed from three different perspectives : conversational organzation ; speech acts used by the interactants ; and politeness strategies used by the dominant and dominated participants in face - to - face interaction.As to the organization of discourse - with particular refernce to levinson's concept of preference organization - it is shown that use of adjacency pairs serves as a means of creating power relations UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -