Adjacency Pairs in English Special Questions (based on C. Ahern’s «P.S. I love you»)

Abstract

At the beginning of the XXI century the study of interconnection and interaction in different languages is considered to be one of the essential directions in linguistics. Dialogue in the modern theory of speech activity can de treated as the interaction sequences performed by language users, and it is considered as a form of socio - verbal communication. As the dialogic speech is influenced by motives of activity, it has certain goals and objectives. This article discusses questioninganswering strategies in a dialogue system, and examines the connection of stimuli and responses in special questions, in particular. Moreover, the structure of responses with specific remarks in dialogues takes a central part in the research. The authors provide descriptive overview of the use of special questions in the dialogic speech in its written representation on the example of the novel “P.S. I love you” written by the Irish writer C. Ahern.