On the principal psycholinguistic characteristics of a tertiary speech dialogical discourse with its active and passive participants

A silent bystander as a passive third participant in a two-person talk is presented and studied in the given article. The article studies the silent bystander’s significant role in a triadic dialogue, discovers psycholinguistic characteristics of a dialogue as a kind of tertiary speech including a silent bystander as a third person whose presence influences both the speakers. The author of the article classifies this silent bystander as an explicit and implicit silent bystander. The silent third person’s – silent bystander’s – presence in the speech situation has a specific influence on the speakers’ speech behaviour – both verbal and non-verbal – thus forming a special type of a dialogue, a triadic one. Both the speakers explicitly consider the silent bystander’s presence and it naturally affects the form as well as the content of their dialogical discourse, thus, enabling the researcher to include the silent bystander in the given communication act. The main criteria of relationship between the both speakers and the silent bystander are presented in the article. The thorough dialogues analysis brought to identifying sixteen types of triads with a wide range of silent bystander’s role. The chart showing the correspondence between the both speakers’ words and the bystander’s reaction to them is also given in the article under consideration.