THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PHASE STRUCTURE OF DIALOGIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article deals with the identification of characteristic features of the phase organization of dialogic discourse. The interpretation of such notions as Gespräch, Dialog, Konversation, and Diskurs relevant to the achievement of the goal and objectives of this study is thoroughly considered. Their common and distinctive features are specified according to the scientific traditions of modern linguistics. The phase analysis of dialogic discourse revealed the main features and various factors influencing the process of dialogic discourse. The initial (contact initiation) and final (contact termination) phases are mostly ritualized, while allowing for variability of their verbal and nonverbal representations, especially when comparing telephone and face-to-face communication. The variability depends primarily on the social status and the situational role of the interlocutors, as well as psychological, cognitive, and semantic-pragmatic factors that affect the success/failure of their interaction. The core phase of dialogic discourse demonstrates conversation topics, motives and goals of interlocutors, the communicative moves (speech acts) and lexical and grammatical means of their expression. Semantic-thematic features of the core phase of dialogic discourse are determined by the propositional content. In this case the dominant role is played by the propositional predicate, which is expressed by the verb of the corresponding semantics in the grammatical forms of Indikativ or Konjunktiv, depending on the type of speech acts in the communicative moves of interlocutors. The type of syntactic structures indicates the explicitness and implicitness of the expression of speech acts. The analysis of empirical material proves the existence of non-verbal expression of contact initiation and contact termination in the phase structure of dialogic discourse. The core phase (especially in fiction) can be complicated, where different phases of dialogical discourse overlap and repeat. The analysis of such discourses leads to the use of notions from different traditions of discourse study to interpret discourse.