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

110 Ágnes Deli -A3 ~B4 famous quotes about her she was. She was fantastic. 21. Al: You're playing Ann Harrad. Bl: I am playing Ann Harrad, yes. A2: It's a sort of B2: She's a wonderful woman. She's [**] kind of woman I've always wanted to be. I've always liked to be like Ann Harrad. She is very forthright. She speaks her mind. The exchange pattern of the two extracts is the following: INITIATION: SITUATION RESPONSE: EVALUATION (+ REASON FOR THE EVALUATION) Exchange 22 is an example in which the two speakers describe the situation in collaboration, i.e. B continues the description using her knowledge of the standard situation of an operation in hospital, so it is a simple Situation-Situation exchange pattern, in which both speakers participate in the specification of the situation. 22. Bl: He's just been checked, looked over by the doctors, temperature checked and name tagged 'nd the anaesthetic put into his hands to numb it ready for a radical injection. Just sitting down, just getting him used to being here, I think # A: And you are just waiting to go down now B2: Yes. ~A: to the theatre. One of Winter's Basic Clause Relations is the Denial-Correction pattern, which he considered a type of the crucial Unspecific-Specific relation (Winter, 1994: 50). In spoken discourse the process of specification, as we have seen above in the case of unspecific noun phrases, can arch over two speaking turns. It is also typical that a negative statement, the denial of a situation requires further explanation or specification, which may be expected to come from the addressee. The following is an example of this common discourse phenomenon. 23. A: I don't imagine that you just write straight on the page. B: No. The whole art of easy writing, of course, is to make it look as if it were [ed] [ed] [ed] as if it were dashed off, as if it were knocked off, but you know you can write a sentence five times and then # it reads as if it's been # just # knocked off.