![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting air of unreality, of behaviourist automatism, is intended to be the same as that produced by a language lesson heard on a gramophone. Not for him, characters accredited with an inner life, of which words are a projection in an outward direction of his plays language, the matter of language, verbal matter, is the stuff and substance. He does not choose as his starting point a group of characters as good dramatists are expected to do, calling upon dramatic language to perform its traditional function of recounting the action and elaborating the theme. IONESCO AND THE MECHANISMS OF LANGUAGE MONSIEUR EUGENE IONESCO, whose university studies were those of a philologist, is obviously aware of the theory of language which makes of it a form of social behaviour and not a means of communicating ideas, or feelings. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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