A communicative-pragmatic analysis of interruption realisation in modern English dialogical discourse

Abstract

The paper offers a study of speech interruptions on the basis of their communicative and pragmatic peculiarities. It provides a dynamic model of interruptions, where the development of the situation of interruption is revealed thanks to the dynamic character of speech interaction. The article presents the analysis of speech acts employed in the process of interruption. It also introduces a number of tactics of the interruption in terms of the cooperative and intrusive interruption strategy.

Assertive Illocutionary Acts on Interruption by Joe Biden in the 2020 First Presidential Debate

“…The outcomes of this study's data result are settled that Joe Biden interrupted as a component of his argument defense during the debate. While the interruption situation appeared only in glimpses during the entire debate, it has its own meaning within the realm of communicative interaction (Kyrychenko, 2017). In agreement with that, the function of assertive illocutionary acts aids the public in understanding what Joe Biden's interruption actually conveyed.…”