The Semiosphere

Abstract

The problem of dialogue has quite understandably been the focus of investigations in recent decades. Since publication of the study by L. P. Yakubinskii entitled On dialogic speech, interest in this question has risen steadily, and in 1929 reached a level that was in many respects far ahead of that of general scientific thought at the time. The problem of dialogue is more and more moving into the center of attention of linguistic interest. This is quite understandable: indeed, the real unit of speech (Sprache als Rede), as we know, is not an isolated monologue statement, but the interaction of at least two statements, i.e., dialogue. The entire range of questions from the mechanism of consciousness and the construction of models of languages to communication with computers leads us, in one way or another, to the problem of dialogue. Moreover, recognition that a dialogue situation is a prerequisite of the communicative process and, in this respect, precedes not only the monologue form of a statement but also the phenomenon of language as such, and the discovery that there is a latent dialogue in monologue texts of various forms increases still further the scope of the problem.

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