Analyzing the pragmatic structure of dialogues

Bibliographic Data

ID5966291
AuthorsFabrizio Macagno (0000-0003-0712-421X, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author), Sarah Bigi (0000-0003-0506-6140, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Year2017
Volume19
Issue2
Pages148-168
Publication date2017-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445617691702
OpenAlexW2598028636
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited43

In this article, we describe the notion of dialogue move intended as the minimal unit for the analysis of dialogues. We propose an approach to discourse analysis based on the pragmatic idea that the joint dialogical intentions are also co-constructed through the individual moves and the higher-order communicative intentions that the interlocutors pursue. In this view, our goal is to bring to light the pragmatic structure of a dialogue as a complex net of dialogical goals (such as persuasion, deliberation, information-sharing, etc.), which represent the communicative purposes that the interlocutors intend to achieve through their utterances. Dialogue moves are shown to represent the necessary interpretive link between the general description of the dialogical context or type and the syntactical analysis of the sentences expressed by the individual utterances. In the concluding part of this article, we show how this method can be used and further developed for analyzing various types of real-life dialogues, outlining possible uses and lines of empirical research based thereon

Deliberation · Dialogical self · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Persuasion · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Speech and dialogue systems

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