The article is devoted to the study of a silent bystander’s role in a tertiary dialogical discourse and his influence on its speakers’ verbal and nonverbal behaviour and thus forming a specific type of a discourse — a triadic dialogue that is a special type of a dialogue characterized by specific features that distinguish it from an ordinary two-way dialogue. The article reveals psycholinguistic aspects of a tertiary speech dialogue with a silent bystander. The silent bystander is classified as an explicit silent bystander and implicit silent bystander. The silent bystander’s presence has a specific influence on the interlocutors’ speech behaviour verbal as well as and non-verbal. Due to such an influence a special type of a dialogue, a triadic one, is formed. Thus, the fact of a silent bystander’s presence reconstructs the whole communication process, modifies both the content and the form of the two-person dialogue. So due to that communicative role a silent bystander appears to be an important participant of the communicative situation and extralinguistic factor influencing the communicative and psychological conditions of a tertiary dialogue. The article presents triadic dialogue models with a silent bystander’s different roles in the given communicative acts.
For citation:
Babayan V.N. A silent bystander as a tertiary dialogical discourse producer, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023, iss. 2, pp. 34—43.