Subsequent dialogue progress and interlocutors’ communication initiative (on the material of children and adult ordinary discourse)

Afinogenova Viktoriya Alekseevna

This research was associated with illocutionary mechanism of dialogue progress which determined necessity of special type replica as a reply for initiating communication step. We analyzed 10 dialogues of children aged 4 to 5 years during free time games and 10 adult dialogues during free time interaction in lecture’s breaks. The study shows that subsequent dialogue progress occurs in illocutive dependent communication steps during interlocutors’ speech interaction. It breaks when illocutive independent communication steps and communication initiative are realized. Different kinds of communication initiative and further transformations of speech interaction are described.

Keywords:speech interaction, ordinary discourse, intent-analysis, illocutionary mechanism of dialogue progress, illocutive dependent and independent communication steps, interlocutors’ communication initiative