Chức năng dụng học của phần tự điều chỉnh lời thoại trong phim truyền hình

Abstract

Conversational self-repair is necessary for speakers to make clearer what they are speaking to listeners. It also helps keep on the conversation and makes them smoother and more effective. However, speakers sometimes use the device for various purposes, not just for error correction. The paper investigates its pragmatic functions so that learners of English and Vietnamese can understand the speaker’s intents when self-repairing and have more effective conversations in use. The research is based on the theory of self-repair by Schegloff et al. (1977), illocutionary forces in pragmatics and data of 500 conversations from English television films and another 500 from Vietnamese television films. The English conversations are selected from those films broadcast during the 1995 – 2017 period because listening to their utterances together with watching the characters’ attitudes and gestures can reflect real-life communication.