The peculiarities of actualization of the role FRIEND-GOOD COMPANY in the situation “Talk of Friends”

Abstract

The article studies the actualization of the role friend-good company forming within the boundaries of cooperative communicative situation “Talk of Friends” a phatic metacommunicative variation (“small talk”) aimed at pleasantly passing away the time together as well as maintaining / strengthening friendly relations. The research has proved that the communicative aim of phatic metacommunicative talk of friends coincides with that of other types of “small talk”, while its thematic repertoire has specific characteristic features, mainly concerning the private sphere. The study has also shown that the role friend-good company is realised as speaker’s and addressee’s one in actional and mixed (actional/nominative) ways.