La strategia del questioning nell'interazione dialogica: verso una definizione di continua pragmatico-funzionali

• Main Authors: Iolanda Alfano, Renata Savy
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Università del Salento 2015-01-01
• Series: Lingue e Linguaggi
• Subjects: Questioning; dialogue; pragmatics; requests; answers.
• Online Access: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/13720

<p><strong>Abstract - </strong>This work investigates the <em>Questioning</em> strategy within dialogical speech, considered the prototypical verbal interaction. In order to implement this communicative strategy, speakers need to take care of different kinds of aspects: information exchange involves interpersonal aspects as well as the propositional content connected with the specific communicative aims (in our case, the solution of the <em>task-oriented</em> dialogue). Therefore, we present an analysis considering these two levels in which interlocutors cooperate: an interactional and relational level, as well as a task-oriented level. These aspects are obviously related to idiosyncratic characteristics of each speaker and depend on social, cultural, relational and situational factors too.</p> In spite of all this variability, we present some functional-pragmatic continua as a valid and accurate interpretation key of the dynamics of the <em>Questioning</em> strategy. They reflect  two different and often opposite forces acting simultaneously: on the one hand, the need to communicate a specific message to reach a common goal and, on the other hand, the effort to maintain the relationship with the interlocutor.