话题的互动性--以口语对话语料为例

The interactivity of topic:A case study of natural conversations

文章使用对话语料,旨在从交际互动与语篇视角来考察话题的性质。研究发现,无论是语篇话题还是主谓句的句子话题,都体现出互动性。据此,可以将话题定义为:话题是由会话人在具体互动时空中共同协商构建的联合背景注意的中心。从语言使用的互动性来看,汉语的主谓句恰是迷你语篇,汉语主谓句的句子话题具有语篇话题的本质.也是语篇话题。

This article aims to investigate the nature of the topic from the perspective of discourse and interactive communication by using natural conversations. It is found that both discourse topics and sentence topics embody interactivity. Based on this recognition, a topic can be defined as follows: a topic is a label of joint background attention constructed by the conversation participants in the specific interactional enchrony and situation. From the view of interactivity in language use, utterances/sentences in Chinese are just mini discourses, and Chinese utterance/sentence topics are essentially discourse topics.