Article

Name: The structure of the Altai dialogue and means of expressing verification

Authors: А. А. Dobrynina

Institute of Philology of the SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Фонетика

Abstract:

This study examines the communicative structure of utterances and word order in the Altai language, specifically in question-answer dialogues. The focus is identifying the means of verification in the Altai language by analyzing verificative utterances. Verificative utterances contain significant information that reflects some fact of objective reality, with relevant information emphasizing the most important aspect of this significant information. The relevant information may cover all the significant information or focus only on one aspect. It may also have the character of a new message or may verify the reliability of some already-known fact or event. The analysis reveals that the frequency of informative utterances is higher compared to verificative utterances in the Altai language. However, special verificative utterances are rather widespread. Their communicative-syntactic scheme is identical to that of corresponding special informative types. Still, they convey the relevant information of a different character. Special informative sentences report something new about the utterance theme. In special verificative sentences, both the theme and the rheme are set by the preceding context, and the essence of the relevant information is to confirm or deny the reliability of the supposed fact or event. The answer in the Altai language, which is closely linked to the preceding question, constitutes the final component of the entire dialogic unity in terms of structure and communication. The analysis identified four characteristic types of special verificatory statements in the Altai language: subject, predicate, object, and circumstantial.

Keywords: Altai language, intonation, dialog, experimental phonetics, utterance, thematic-rhematic articulation For citation

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