Turn-Taking: The Second Conversational Turn and Metalanguage Dialogue Operators (Based on Dialogical Internet Formats)

The article discusses the problem of tum-taking in dialogue associated with solving the question of the genesis of a response. The aim of the article is to determine conditions under which the second conversational turn appears in a dialogue. The article analyzes the metalanguage contexts of the addressee’s intentional state presented in the form of dialogue metaoperators. The latter are understood as verbalized or non-verbalized statements, which are markers of the intentional state of the addressee who decides to make a second conversational turn in the dialogue. The material for the analysis was the network dialogue platforms: social networks Vkontakte, Facebook, Instagram focused on dialogical (polylogical) communication; the public server YouTube, which has a dialogically oriented communication format. The analyzed metalanguage operators of the dialogue were options of the dialogue formats of the Internet: “Like”, “Dislike”, “Share”, “Comment”, “Reply”. The analytical-descriptive method was used as the main one in the study; it allowed describing the role of metaoperators in turn-taking. Following L.P. Yakubinsky, turn-taking is seen as a manifestation of a native speaker’s dialogical ability realized in a response situation. Turn-taking is one of the components of the model of generating a dialogical utterance responsible for the segmentation of the initial replica and only then the creation of a response (second) conversational turn. The work shows that the metalanguage operators “Like”, “Dislike”, “Share”, “Reply”, “Comment” determine the dialogical functioning of an utterance on the Internet. The metalanguage operators “Like”/“Dislike” show the dependence of turn-taking on the native speaker’s emotional-evaluative reaction, the inclusion of the initial turn in the modus reflection zone. The metalanguage operators “Reply” and “Comment” demonstrate the connection between turntaking and the response situation, provoking the native speaker to pragmatically deduce the signified from the signifier. These metalinguistic operators regulate retrospective communicative contact and determine the emergence of the second remark as a response in the dialogue situation. The metalanguage operator “Share” shows the dependence of turn-taking on the orientation towards the addressee and its connection with quotation as transmission of someone else’s speech. This metalinguistic operator is focused on prospective communicative contact with a potential addressee. With this approach, the response becomes at the same time the initial phrase in a “new” dialogue.

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