Popivniak O. Telephone Discourse: Structural-Semantic and Linguopragmatic Aspects (based on the English Language).

The thesis is devoted to the study of structural, semantic and linguopragmatic features of Modern English telephone discourse. The research outlines the basic approaches to the study of dialogic discourse and telephone discourse in particular. Telephone discourse is defined as a verbalized communicative activity, which is telephone-mediated and regulated by communicators’ strategies and tactics, and appears to be the totality of the process (dynamic speech interaction) and the result (text); it is realized in communicative situations that incorporate linguistic and extralinguistic (social, physical, psychic, cognitive and cultural) elements. The study determines the constitutive features of telephone discourse, including the lack of visual contact, which enhances the importance of verbal, prosodic and extralinguistic means of communication; interaction of two communicators; the possibility of speech overlaps or pausation between communicative turns, and the prevalence of spontaneous speech that tends to be distinct, concise and clichéd.