The Role of Dialogic Organisation in Reflexive Construals of Identity in Selected Fiction Texts

communicative transactions of three protagonists of novels. In my use of the term,
reflexive construal represents both the act of shaping and interpreting identity while
it is still in progress within an ongoing communicative event. Herein, denotational/
referential and interactional success (see Agha 2007) are two discrete phenomena
whose co-occurrence is realised through the dynamism of differing degrees of referential
appropriateness and semiotic effectiveness that are in a relation of reciprocal proportion.
I attempt to outline a semiotically mediated model of social role inhabitance, focusing
on two types of dialogue as the key linguistic factor correlating with the occurrence
of varieties of social personae in the process of identity negotiation. ese varieties
are the representations of the protagonists’ potential social authenticities within the
framework of fictional texts. My data seem to suggest that communicative dynamism
in its textually extended pattern is maintained by the interdependence between the
dialogue organisation and message structure. Alteration to the typical pattern of the
former will result in alteration in the pattern of the latter, while maintaining the basic
principle of distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism among the elements
of these organisation types.