Exploring dialogical text units from the communicative pragmatic perspective: A case of Harold Pinter’s "LAST TO GO" play
The study of dialogical texts is a natural result of the deep development of linguistic research. As is known, the language system consists of units, to analyze within the framework of the stated topic, we propose a new unit - a fragment of a dialogue, which is a high-level unit of a dialogical text. The replica, the dialogical unity and the fragment of the dialogue constitute a three-level system of dialogical discourse from less to more complex. Based on the peculiarities of dialogue in literary works, fragments of literary dialogue include a preface, a structural combination of characters’ speeches in literary discourse and a remark explaining the speech activity of the characters, and the completion of communicative actions. This article analyzes a dialogue in Harold Pinter’s play “LAST TO GO” and explains the three levels of dialogical text. Putting forward the concept of “fragment of dialogue” expands the scope of research of dialogical text and provides a theoretical basis for determining the units of dialogue discourse.