Communicative Strategies
Communicative Strategy
- They can be used to start and maintain a conversation (Cohen, 1990)
- It is the act of knowing and applying grammar appropriately.
- It can also be a plan or a course of action to convey information accurately.
- It serves as the blueprint in expressing related information to others.
Types
- Nomination
- The act of opening at topic with the people you are talking to.
- Note: Keep the conversational topic open for opinions.
- Restriction
- It is any limitation you may have as a speaker.
- You may be restricted to talk about anything else except for a single topic that someone established.
- Turn-taking
- It occurs when people take turns or decides who takes on the conversational floor.
- The primary idea allowing other communicators having a chance to speak.
- Note: Keep words relevant to the conversation.
- Note: Be polite when taking the conversational floor from another speaker.
- Topic Control
- It covers how a topic is developed by people in a conversation
- Topic Shifting
- The process of moving from one topic to another.
- The moment when one par of conversation ends and another part begins.
- Note: Nurture the current topic first before shifting to gain adequate views.
- Note: You may use conversational transitions to shift topics
- Repair
- The process of how a speaker addresses the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending encountered in conversations
- It is the self righting mechanism in any social interaction.
- Note: It is much more advisable that the speaker should initiate the repair.
- Termination
- The process when the participants’ close initiating expressions.
- It ends a topic in a conversation.
- Note: The person who initiated the topic should signal the end of conversation.