The Language of MoneyOne of the striking aspects of Mamet's work is his language. In most cases, language is the product of both social forces and time. And in this case it's true. The show is a realistic account of the business world in America and the language used is none other than the same language used in the business world. There are numerous uses of the language of monetization (e.g., incommensurability, equivalences, self-sufficiency). The language of the work is composed of repeated money-related words such as leads, prospects, sellers, exchange, purchase, sale, session, slacker, investment, company, stock market, contract, robbery, consumption, etc. These are all economic concepts. . To understand the work, a reader must familiarize himself with this economic vocabulary. Some of these technical terms such as "lead" are explained by Mamet throughout the show. The fact is that the topic of money inevitably requires the language of money. In every work, characters become important when they are universal. I disagree with this, What Samuel Beckett said about Joyce's Finnegan's Wake that "Here form is content, content is form... His writing is not about something, it is that something itself" ( 27), applies to Mamet's work. We observe that the subject of the work influences its form. For example, in scene three Roma talks incessantly (when speaking to Lingk) and does not allow Lingk to speak but a few words and then skips in the middle of his sentences. As a salesman, it is his job to act like one and inculcate so many things to his most likely prospect and this affects the shape of the show. Language also shapes the work. The world described by Mamet is at the same time hu...... 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 early Greek mind: Homer, philosophy, tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004Shell, Marc. Money, language and thought: literary and philosophical economies from the Middle Ages to the modern age. London: University of California Press, 1982. ------. The economics of literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.Stevens, Wallace. Posthumous Opus. London: Vintage, 1959. Weatherford, Jack. The History of Money: From Brownstone 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). Electronic theses, treatises and dissertations. Paper 5273.