The objective of this research is to identify the correlation between the communicative attitude/intention of dialogue participants and the information structure of dialogic units containing elliptical components. The article examines the concepts of communicative attitude and communicative intent, their connection to the phenomenon of communicative intention, and the characteristics of the theme-rheme structure of dialogic units. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first detailed description and systematization of the theme-rheme structure of dialogic units including elliptical components, based on English language data. The study clarifies the role of ellipsis in realizing the speaker's communicative attitude towards transmitting rhematic information, drawing upon English-language dialogic units found in English-language fiction from the second half of the 20th century. The authors analyze theme-rheme dialogic units that constitute narrative two-part dialogues, wherein the opening remark has a two-component structure, representing the theme, while the concluding remark, elliptical in its structure, represents the rheme. The results of the research indicate that elliptical remarks are regular expressions of the rheme of dialogic units and contribute to their informational development, realizing the intentions and communicative attitudes of the dialogue participants. Only in cases of extreme autonomy of the remarks can the dialogue be considered fully thematic with a potentially possible rheme.
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