Demir, Mahmut YasinDurgun, Sezgi Saraç2022-09-122022-09-122022https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12868/1533https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/PhilCan/article/view/1491Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies the spirit of the age by using defamiliarization as a textual strategy by means of which the characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertainty. Therefore, this study analyses discoursal features of Waiting for Godot by focusing on modality as the primary means for a void and indecisive attitude that is created through defamiliarization. The study further exemplifies how Beckett's use of defamiliarization foregrounds epistemic modality to create a discourse unique in his authorial path.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessepistemic modality, defamiliarization, theatre of the absurd, Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckettepistemic modalitydefamiliarizationtheatre of the absurdWaiting for GodotSamuel BeckettArticle10.20420/Phil.Can.2022.465282336N/A