Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS OF OVERCOMING COMMUNICATIVE MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE ENGLISH DIALOGICAL DISCOURSE
Published 2017-02-27
Keywords
- communicative misunderstanding,
- repair,
- strategy,
- tactic
Abstract
The article is devoted to studying strategic and tactical processing of the communicative situation of misunderstanding. In particular, attention is focused on the usage of repair to address this communicative cognitive difficulty. The study links self-repair and other-repair with the strategies and tactics used to overcome misunderstanding. The findings are supported with the examples taken from the English dialogical discourse.