The Language of MoneyOne of the striking aspects of Mamet's play is its language. Most often, language is the product of both social forces and time. And in this case, it's true. The play is a realistic account of the world of business in America and the language used is nothing other than that used in the business world. There are many uses of monetization language (e.g., incommensurabilities, equivalences, self-sufficiency). The language of the play is composed of fully repeated words related to money such as leads, prospects, sellers, exchange, purchase, sale, sit, deadbeat, investment, business, stock market, contract, theft, consumption, etc. These are all economic concepts. . A reader, to understand the piece, must be familiar with this economic vocabulary. Some of these technical terms like “directing” are explained by Mamet during the play. The fact is that the subject of money inevitably requires the language of money. In any play, characters become important when they are universal. I don't agree with this. What Samuel Beckett said about Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, that "Here the form is the content, the content is the form... His writing is not about something, it is that something -even” (27), also applies to Mamet’s work. work. We observe that the subject of the piece influences its form. For example, in scene three, Roma talks incessantly (when talking with Lingk) and only allows Lingk to say a few words, then jumps in the middle of his sentences. As a salesman, it is his job to act as such and instill so much in his most likely prospect, which affects the shape of the piece. Language also shapes the piece. The world Mamet describes is both enormous...... middle of paper ...... Knowledge: On the dismantling of American culture. New York: Sentinel Trade, 2011. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The House of Life. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. Seaford, Richard. Money and the primitive Greek mind: Homer, philosophy, tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004Shell, Marc. Money, language and thought: literary and philosophical economies from the medieval to the modern era. London: University of California Press, 1982.--------------. The economy of literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Stevens, Wallace. Posthumous Opus. London: Vintage, 1959. Weatherford, Jack. The history of money: from sandstone to cyberspace. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997. Whatley, Rodney Boyce, “Mametspeak: David Mamet's Theory of the Power and Potential of Dramatic Language” (2011). Theses, treatises and electronic dissertations. Paper 5273.