Theoretical Fundamentals of Investigation of Metacommunicative Questions in English Dialogic Discourse

Grabovska Inna Viktorivna
PhD (Philology), Kyiv National Linguistic University

The author reveals the content of the notion “metacommunication”, which is becoming more widely used in the theory of speech communication for the denotation of speech regulation plan in communication process, pays particular attention to the critical analysis of alternative notions, including the terms “metatext”, “metalanguage”, “phatic communion”, and researches the semantic and communicative-functional aspects of metacommunicative questions in communicants’ dialogic interaction.

Key words and phrases: metacommunication; metatext; metalanguage; metacommunicative question; speech contact. 

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