A Comparative Analysis of Dialogue, Interview, and Conversation as Communicative Forms

This article examines dialogue, interview, and everyday conversation as three related but distinct forms of verbal interaction. The study focuses on their structural organization, participant roles, communicative aims, pragmatic features, and linguistic markers. Although all three forms are based on turn-taking and interaction between speakers, they differ in their degree of planning, the distribution of communicative control, the role of questions, and the level of formality. The article argues that interview is usually a goal-oriented and institutionally organized form of discourse, conversation is a spontaneous and socially motivated form of communication, while dialogue can function as a broader communicative model that includes both natural and constructed exchanges. A comparative table and a conceptual scheme are provided to show the relationship between these forms.