Digress

• Illocution: Digressions occur when a dialogue participant deviates from the framework or the scenario of the dialogue or when the participant asks questions concerning the system.
• Subcategorization
  1. digress_scenario: The dialogue participant digresses from the initial dialogue setting.
  2. refer_to_setting: The dialogue participant refers to the whole or parts of the setting / the scenario.
• Linguistic Realisation:
  Und was soll ich jetzt sagen?
  
• Full Example - English

  Source: Dialogue fmjm_mdrd_1

  mdrd_1_04: it okay let's do that (ACCEPT_DATE) we could meet for lunch at Dave and Andy's (SUGGEST_SUPPORT_LOCATION) and eat lots of ice cream (DIGRESS_SCENARIO) and gain weight (DIGRESS_SCENARIO)