THE INTEGRATION OF GRATITUDE COMMUNICATIVE MOVES INTO ENGLISH LITERARY DIALOGUE DISCOURSE
Journal Title: Одеський лінгвістичний вісник - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue
Abstract
The given article reports on the results of Conversation Analysis application to Gratitude Communicative Move. The corpus of conversational data used for the research has been selected from modern English Literary Discourse. The data comprises 1600 communicative exchanges in which characters express Gratitude. Conversation Analysis application has enabled the author to focus on the linguistic aspect of Gratitude turn-taking. This paper reports on the social aspect of Gratitude turn-taking and the pragmatic goals of its participants. The article provides a theoretical background for gratitude Conversation Analysis as the empirical research method of dialogic speech. It provides a detailed survey on such linguistic concepts as communicative move, communicative turn, adjacency pair, sequence, communicative exchange and speech episode. Taking into consideration the viewpoints of various linguists concerning the nature of Gratitude and her own observations over the conversational data, the author offers basic communicative patterns of Gratitude utterances in a communicative exchange. The most commonly used one consists of two moves and develops according to the following scheme: stimulus – Gratitude. As it has been experimentally proved, Gratitude can occur in three-move patterns as well, functioning as either a responding communicative move or as a follow-up move. From the author’s viewpoint, there are two patterns of three-move exchanges that include Gratitude. One of them comprises the following communicative moves: stimulus – Gratitude – follow-up. Another three-move exchange pattern develops according to the following pattern: stimulus – response – follow-up Gratitude. Moreover, it has been established that Gratitude cues can be parts of four-move exchanges. Their speech realization unfolds according to the following pattern: stimulus – response – follow-up Gratitude – follow-up. Also, a tendency has been registered: Gratitude utterances can start a communicative move, thus, functioning as an initiative communicative move.
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Inna Kivenko
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