Linguistic expression of assistance in the conversational speech of scholars

The article is devoted to studying of the linguistic expression of assistances in the conversational speech of scholars of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok on the material of 6 decoded audio recordings of the colloquial speech of scholars. Our purpose is to define the assistance as a type of social co-agentive action, to characterize social helping actions in terms of correlation of social roles between their subjects, as well as the relationship between their operations and their structure. In the assistance, the first social subject helps the second social subject to realize some action. Thus, these actions consist of main and assisting operations, therefore they are complex co-agentive actions, or cooperative actions, whose subjects, as a rule, tend to achieve the same goal while performing different operations. From the point of view of correlation of social roles between subjects of the assistance, in most of the analyzed examples the social role of the assisting subject is higher than the social role of the main subject. As a result of analysis in terms of the relationship between operations of the assistance, it is determined that these operations are usually not the same, and the assisting operation is the cause of the main operation. The structural analysis of assistances shows that in most cases, helping actions are not realized in the fullness of the structure, and that both operations are important for actions of this type. Therefore, assistance is a complex co-agentive action consisting of main and assisting operations. Both operations are important for this action. In the studied material, such helping actions prevail when the social role of the auxiliary subject is higher than the social role of the main subject, and when the assisting operation is the cause of the main operation, therefore, these operations are not the same.