Thus, the study expounds on the absurd subject and theme as reflected through the (mis)use of language. This demonstrates and foregrounds how the play radically and deliberately abuses and violates the Gricean Maxims and confuses Speech Acts so as to accentuate the play’s theme and effect of “absurdity.” Subsequent to examining selected characters’ utterances, it is concluded that there is an evidently high number of instances to which the play breaks the cooperative maxims, and likewise there is an enormous number of events to which the play conveys the mismatch between speech act and the perlocutionary effects. The study presents an evaluation of the absurd language through analyzing its devaluation. The article is a discourse analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, thus exploring the language that exemplifies the Theatre of the Absurd.
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