Specific Features of Everyday Dialogic Speech

Abstract

The focus of the article is on the peculiarities of Russian everyday dialogic speech. The aim of the article is to describe the specific features of dialogic speech. The object of the analysis is dialogic unit. Everyday dialogic speech is characterized by the interaction of mutually directed intentions of communicants. In this case, the dialogue is a sequence of speech moves, which consist of specific speech techniques. Speech techniques are defined as lines, consisting of different statements, used in order to have a certain impact on the partner in communication. Dialogic units are chosen as material of the research as they are typical for everyday dialogic speech in the Russian language. The article concludes that the dialogue can be considered as two ambivalent clusters - conflict or cooperation. The main specificity of dialogic speech lies in its motivation, mutual directionality, emotional coloring and situational conditionality. The article analyzes and describes the speech techniques and moves of dialogic speech using examples from corpora.

Extended abstract:

The processes of globalization, the development of modern communication technologies, and the expansion of international contacts make a multidimensional study of dialogic speech relevant. Communication is studied within the framework of various sciences as a complex socially significant process affecting virtually all spheres of human activity. The present paper is devoted to the study of everyday dialogic speech and its basic unit - the dialogic unit. The focus of the research is on the specifics of everyday dialogic speech in the Russian language. The aim of the article is to describe the features of dialogic speech. The object of the analysis is the dialogic unit. The material of the research is the contexts, containing dialogic units, from the National Corpus of the Russian language and the online resource “AdMe. Creativity. Freedom. Life”. Dialogue is a sequence of speech moves, which consist of specific speech techniques. Speech techniques are defined as replicas, used with the aim to have a certain impact on the partner in communication. The article analyzes and describes the speech techniques and moves of dialogic speech, using examples from the corpus. The basic methodological principle of the present study is anthropocentrism. The holistic nature of the research is ensured by the comprehensive use of the following methods: induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, corpus analysis, and methods of classification and systematization of linguistic material, contextual analysis.

The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the concept of everyday dialogic speech is specified; the description of the specifics of the mutually directed intentions of communicants is offered; the pragmatic potential of markers in Russian dialogic speech is revealed and described. The practical significance of the work is determined by the fact that pragmatic approach to the description of dialogic speech markers in Russian is applicable to the linguistic description of other language units in different languages. The conclusions of this study include the assertion that everyday dialogue is possible to investigate with a detailed study of communicants' intentions. Everyday dialogue is a spontaneous type of speech, which possesses such specific characteristics as motivation, addressability, emotional coloring, situationality, contraction, conciseness, integrity, the ability to semantic expansion, dynamic nature, thematic connectedness, functional connectedness, informativeness, absence of strict organization and extralinguisticity. An important aspect of the dialogue is the common information base of the communicators. As a result, dialogue can unfold towards two main directions - cooperation or conflict.