Abstract
This article discusses the role context plays in the development of any oral interaction. It is, thus, in light of the Interactional Sociolinguistic area that I analyze a cartoon of a son-father dialogue to uncover the implicit meanings derived from contextual information. The analysis showed that, although the context of situation itself might determine the verbal and nonverbal interlocutors’ choices, such interlocutors can also (re)create the context to fulfill their communicative intentions.
Highlights
Which structural features are encountered in most daily conversations? And how are ideologies represented in institutional talkings? These and other questions concerning oral interaction are what lead pragmatic studies whose objective, among others, is to discuss the organization of practice as turn-taking, sequence organization, repair organization and overall structural organization of episodes of interaction according to specific contexts of situation
The way the actions and reactions are mutually organized in the course of interaction, and how the contextual information can interfere in this dialogic process, has been the focus of conversational analysis, a field of research within Pragmatic studies
The role of context in oral interaction discussed in this article is just one of the conversational features among many others that conversational analysts can choose as the basis for investigating the implicit meanings in dialogues
Summary
These and other questions concerning oral interaction are what lead pragmatic studies whose objective, among others, is to discuss the organization of practice as turn-taking, sequence organization, repair organization and overall structural organization of episodes of interaction according to specific contexts of situation. To communicate initially implies interaction between two participants, and how a group of actions and reactions encountered in that specific situation are interrelated in the negotiation of meanings (MARCUSCHI, 1991; GOFFMAN, 2002). The way the actions and reactions are mutually organized in the course of interaction, and how the contextual information can interfere in this dialogic process, has been the focus of conversational analysis, a field of research within Pragmatic studies. Considering all factors that contribute for the development of a conversation, it is the objective of this article to ponder the role of context in oral interaction. I take a strip of a cartoon, of a son-father conversation (Figure 1), as to discuss how text and context can (re)construct both the process of production and interpretation of meanings
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