关键词: 《莳萝泡菜》, 隐性话轮, 话题变换, 会话/话语分析, 深层意义

Abstract: In light of conversation analysis, the essay reframes the silence and inner world monologue as functionally invisible turns in conversation, carefully examining the conversation structure, the arrangement and distribution of conversation turns and shifts of topics so as to indicate the dynamics of conversation and the indexicality of power and solidarity between the protagonists in the short story “A Dill Pickle”. In so doing, there is revealed, by unobtrusively deconstructing the stereotypes of characters, a deep-hidden meaning or the underlying purpose of the story: power and identity can be negotiated and constructed through discourse. From this angle, “A Dill Pickle” is seen not as a mere criticism of male-domination, but a strong appeal for negotiation of power and voice by way of communication.