This document discusses different types of communicative strategies used in conversation. It explains that nomination involves opening a new topic of discussion, restriction refers to any limitations on what a speaker can say, and turn-taking aims to give all participants an opportunity to speak. It also covers topic control, topic shifting, repairing issues in communication, and signaling termination of a topic. Examples are provided for identifying these different strategies.
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Types of Communicativ E Strategies
This document discusses different types of communicative strategies used in conversation. It explains that nomination involves opening a new topic of discussion, restriction refers to any limitations on what a speaker can say, and turn-taking aims to give all participants an opportunity to speak. It also covers topic control, topic shifting, repairing issues in communication, and signaling termination of a topic. Examples are provided for identifying these different strategies.
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TYPES OF
COMMUNICATIV E STRATEGIES People communicate every day to establish and maintain relationships, know and understand themselves, and find meaning in the daily grind.
Successful communication requires
understanding of the relationship between words and sentences and the speech acts they represent.
It is only when we willingly cooperate and speak
in socially-approved ways that we can make a conversation meaningful. Types of Communicative Strategies
Since engaging in conversation is also
bound by implicit rules. Cohen (1990) states that strategies must be used to start and maintain a conversation. Knowing and applying grammar appropriately is one of the most basic strategies to maintain a conversation. 1. Nomination A speaker carries out to nomination to collaboratively and productively establish a topic. Basically, when you employ this strategy, you try to open a topic with the people you are talking to.
When beginning a topic in a conversation,
especially if it does not arise from a previous topic, you may start off with news inquiries and news announcements as they promise extended talk. Most importantly, keep the conversational environment open for opinions until the prior topic shuts down easily and initiates a smooth end. This could efficiently signal the beginning of a new topic in the conversation. 2. Restriction
Restriction in communication refers to any
limitation you may have as a speaker. When communicating in the classroom, in a meeting, or while hanging out with your friends, you are typically given specific instructions that you must follow. These instructions confine you as a speakers and limit what what you can say. 3. Turn-taking Sometimes people are given unequal opportunities to talk because others take much time during the conversation. Turn-taking pertains to the process by which people decide who take the conversational floor. There is a code of behavior behind establishing and sustaining a productive conversation, but the primary idea is to give all communicators a chance to speak. 4. Topic Control Topic control covers how procedural formality or informality affects the development of topic in conversations. For example, in meetings, you may only have a turn to speak after the chairperson directs you to do so. Contrast this with a casual conversation with friends over lunch or coffee where you may take the conversational floor anytime.
When the topic is initiated, it should be
collectively developed by avoiding unnecessary interruptions and topic shifts. 5. Topic Shifting Topic shifting, as the name suggests, involves moving from one topic to another. In other words, it is where one part of a conversation ends and where another begins.
When shifting from one topic to another, you may
have to be very intuitive. Make sure that the previous topic was nurtured enough to generate adequate views. You may also use effective conversational transitions to indicate a shift like “By the way,” “In addition to what you said,” “Which reminds me of,” and the like. 6. Repair Repair refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they may encounter in a conversation. For example, if everybody in the conversation seems to talk at the same time, give way and appreciate other's initiative to set the conversation back to its topic. Repair is the self-righting mechanism in any social interaction (Schegloff et al, 1977). If there is a problem in understanding the conversation, speakers will always try to address and correct it. 7. Termination Termination refers to the conversation participants' close-initiating expressions that end a topic in a conversation. Most of the time, the topic initiator takes responsibility to signal the end of the discussion as well.
Although not all topics may have clear ends, try to
signal the end of the topic through concluding cues. You can do this by sharing what you learned from the conversation. Aside frm this, soliciting agreement from the other participants usually completes the discussion of the topic meaningfully. Identify the type of communicative strategy in each statement. 1. “Do you have anything to say?” 2. “One of the essential lessons I gained from the discussion is the importance of sports and wellness to a healthy lifestyle.” 3. “Excuse me? I think we should speak one at a time, so we can clearly understand what we want to say about the issue.” 4. “Go on with your ideas. I'll let you finish first before I say something.” 5. “Have you heard the news about the latest achievement of our government?” Identify the type of communicative strategy in each statement. 6. “Hey, how are you? I missed you!” 7. “Best regards to your parents to your parents! See you around!” 8. “Good to see you. Anyway, I came to visit you because I want to personally offer apologies for what I did yesterday.” 9. Sorry, I can't decide on that now. I am still focused on my writing assignment. Let's talk next time, okay?” 10. “Now, it's your turn to ask questions.”