Abstract

Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature of 2005. Harold Pinter's drama, Mountain Language is a very important work of his old age, reflecting the relationship between language and power. Mountain Language is a short four-act play, in which the rule of language constantly changes. The author is trying to use the postcolonial theory to make an analysis of the Mountain Language, to analyze the relationship between language and power, and the impact of Postcolonial theory on this work. This research aims to provide a new angle to the analysis of Pinter’s plays with the theory of Postcolonialism.

Keywords  Pinter’ drama  Mountain Language   Postcolonialism   language and power

英国戏剧大师哈罗德品特在2005年获得了诺贝尔文学奖。《山地语言》是他晚期的一部重要作品，反映了语言与权力之间的关系。《山地语言》是一部非常短的戏剧，一共由四幕组成在这四幕剧中代表权力的规则不断转变.该论文作者试图运用后殖民主义理论解读《山地语言》，分析其中语言和权力的关系，以及后殖民主义理论对这部作品所起到的影响和作用。本文旨在从后殖民主义角度为研究品特戏剧提供一个新的视角。

关键词  品特戏剧 山地语言 后殖民主义 权力与语言

1 Introduction
Harold Pinter has been the most important playwright since George Bernard Shaw in England in the twentieth century. In a number of Harold Pinter's drama, Mountain Language is a very outstanding work, reflecting the relationship between language and power. But till now, the research towards this play is not adequate as others. The author is trying to use the postcolonial theory to make an analysis of the Mountain Language, to analyze the relationship between language and power, and the impact of post-colonial theory on this work.

1.1    The Playwright and Mountain Language
On October 13 2005, the Swedish Academy announced that it had decided to award the Nobel Prize for Literature for that year to Pinter. He is the second playwright who won the Nobel Prize since Beckett in 1969.The Swedish Academy praised Harold Pinter in its Presentation Speech “An enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles. With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution.