Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2004. Vol. 4. Eger Journal of English Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 30)
ÁGNES DELI Interpersonality and Textuality in Discourse
102 Ágnes Deli component of the context, while the latter is, in fact, the underlying bf knowledge of the participants of some textual patterns, which gets activated in the collaboration of the two speakers in a dialogue. It works as a guide for the second speedier to make a relevant contribution in the response move. In non-interrogative initiations it is these two factors that establish the function of the initiation as elicitation for response. Being familiar with Austin and Searle's indirect speech acts we can say that by now it has become a truism that in conversation a linguistic form may occur virtually irrespective of its discourse function, i.e. there is no one-to-one correspondence between form and meaning. The speaker has several options when formulating his utterance and it may also happen that while planning the linguistic realisation he hesitates about the form to opt for: 1. A: So wasn't it Bl: [**] ~A: it it ~B1: John Carr [**] ~A: it wasn't obviously built as a hospital, though. B2: No, it was originally stables for the duke's horses. 2. A: But it must have started before that, Keith, I mean, you must as a fprcekj, did you have a very good English teacher? We were talking about English teachers earlier on. B: I did. I did have a good English teacher, [a] .. 3. A: I thought is it a it was what I was wondering, is it a comedy , or a tragedy , so what's the feeling? B: Well, what can I say? It is a very very funny play, but it will also make you cry. So that's all I can say. It's a sort of a saga, you know. ... 4. A: Is that, so you specialize totally in African violets. B: Indeed. In unplanned, natural speech such hesitation phenomena as false starts, self-repair or reruns, as well as repetitions are generally considered normal non-fluencies, which may be due to a slip of the tongue or a temporary loss for the selection of an appropriate form. Our examples, however, also suggest that the linguistic form is overridden by some prevailing discourse factor, which obviously contributes to the context. In elicitations interrogative and non-interrogative forms can obviously interchange, therefore it seems sensible to assume that both the production
