No. 66 (2017): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
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
  • комунікативне непорозуміння,
  • корегуюча репліка,
  • стратегія,
  • тактика

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.

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