Abstrakt

The article analyses spoken (oral) colloquial dialogue against the background of written texts and different functional styles, recalling the notion of textual categories. The basis of the characteristic is а description of the realization in а definite dialogue of such categories as: time and space, theme and tonality. The colloquial dialogue possesses а specific categorial and textual structure; lt is determined Ьу: (1) spatial-temporal organization with dominant co-ordinates "we - here - now", (2) thematic structure which is penetrated Ьу the "I - themes", subordinating to itself thematical variety of fragments, (3) tonal dominant qualifying the substantial unfolding of а dialogue in agreement with the logic of interlocutors' communication, and Ьelonging to the semantic kernel of the conversation.