These are the plans or courses of action in conveying information. It helps to maintain interactive and meaningful communication.
COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES
Corder (1978) also defined communicative strategy as a systematictechnique employed by the speaker to express his ideas when faced with some difficulties.
While Stern (1983) also reiterated that communicative strategies are techniquesforcommunicating in an imperfectly known second or foreign language.
Cohen (1990) states that strategies must be used to start and maintain a conversation.
7 types of communicative strategy
nomination
restriction
topic-control
turn-taking
topic-shifting
repair
termination
The speaker starts the conversation by presenting or suggesting a topic to talk about. *Opening a topic*
Nomination
What type of topic it shows?
NOMINATION
Refers to the limitation of the speakers to talk about another topic other than the nominated topic.
Restriction
What type of topic it shows?
Restriction
It pertains on the process of sticking to a topic all throughout the conversation. The manner of explicating the information or topic being talked about in the conversation.It keeps the interactiongoing by asking questions and eliciting a response.
Topic-control
What type of topic it shows?
Topic-control
Giving other speakers the chance to take the conversational floor. It is done by addressing the speaker politely to speak in the conversation.
Turn-taking
What type of topic it shows?
Turn-taking
Moving from one topic to another. Knowing when to talk depends on watching out for verbal and nonverbal cues. Introducing a new topic followed by the continuation of that topic.
Topic-shifting
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.
Topic-shifting
What type of topic it shows?
Topic-shifting
Overcoming communication breakdown to send comprehensible messages.
According to Schegloff (1977), repair is the effort by which parties in a conversation to correct trouble spots such as not knowing a particular word, or misunderstanding other speakers.
What type of topic it shows?
Repair
Additionally, Bardovi - Harlig et al. (1991) state that closing is a matter of politeness, thus we use some essential components of felicitous closings