Аннотация:This paper is aimed at establishing the parameters of the dialogic communication expressed through Russian prosody. The linguistic and extra-linguistic constituents of dialogue are analyzed. These are: 1.the illocutionary meanings that generate speech acts, characteristic of the dialogic communication; 2.the discourse links that combine the successive speech acts of one interlocutor if his/her current contribution into the dialogue is not limited to a single speech act; 3. the prosodic characteristics of genre typical for a concrete type of communication (a friendly talk, an exam, a press conference, a scientific presentation, or an interrogation). The proposed taxonomy is based on the analysis of the minor working corpus of spoken dialogues from the Russian National corpus (Multimodal sub-corpus Murko), the annotated database Spokencorpora.ru, video-hosting Youtube.com, films, scientific conferences, and press conferences. The computer system Praat is used to analyze the sound data. The paper is illustrated with tracings of sound records.