SPEAKER’S COMMUNICATIVE REACTIONS ON INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS IN DIALOGUES (BASED ON ENGLISH LITERATURE DISCOURSE)

Abstract

The article presents the study of speaker’s communicative responses on an indirect speech act in dialogues in English literature discourse. This paper proposes an inquiry into the specifics of communication with indirect speech acts in anthropocentric communicative cognitive aspects of linguistic researches. Indirect speech act is recognized as an utterance with an additional illocutionary force. An additional illocutionary force extends the indirect speech act’s meaning and functions to actualize the speaker’s communicative intention in verbal interaction. Indirect speech act is a verbal means of interaction which aims to create a successful or unsuccessful communication. Indirect utterance is used by speakers to achieve an intended purpose. Speaker’s indirect speech act becomes successful in the case of obtaining the expected communicative reaction of the interlocutor to the indirect utterance. The expected communicative response means the actualization of speaker’s communicative intention. Indirect speech act is considered unsuccessful when the interlocutor’s reaction to the indirect utterance is absent or incorrectly interpreted by them and the speaker’s communicative intention is not realized in the communicative situation. It has been found that the types of communicative interlocutor’s respponses to the speaker’s indirect speech act are verbal and nonverbal in character’s speech in Patrick Whit’s novels. The peculiarities of character of the interlocutor's reactive communicative moves to an indirect utterance varies from expected to unexpected. Unexpected but cooperative character’s response to the indirect utterance is recorded in situations of verbal interaction. This type of communicative response indicates the character’s intention to cooperate in this communication, but the inability for some reason to satisfy the desires of the interlocutor. The unexpected reactions of the character’s response to the indirect utterance in order to stop any cooperation during communication were revealed, but their number is much smaller than the expected interlocutor’s communicative responses. Indirect speech acts are relevant and successful utterances in character’s speech in Patrick White's novels, which realize communicative intention in an indirect way.