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Types of Communicative Strategies

This document discusses communicative strategies, which are ways of sharing information to achieve social, political, psychological, or linguistic goals. Communicative strategies also help avoid or repair communication breakdowns. The document outlines several types of communicative strategies: 1. Nomination introduces a topic to others in a clear manner. 2. Restriction refers to limitations placed on a speaker by instructions. 3. Turn-taking, topic control, and topic shifting help manage conversation flow and allow all participants to contribute. 4. Repair addresses problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that arise. 5. Termination uses verbal and nonverbal cues to appropriately end a topic.

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Types of Communicative Strategies

This document discusses communicative strategies, which are ways of sharing information to achieve social, political, psychological, or linguistic goals. Communicative strategies also help avoid or repair communication breakdowns. The document outlines several types of communicative strategies: 1. Nomination introduces a topic to others in a clear manner. 2. Restriction refers to limitations placed on a speaker by instructions. 3. Turn-taking, topic control, and topic shifting help manage conversation flow and allow all participants to contribute. 4. Repair addresses problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that arise. 5. Termination uses verbal and nonverbal cues to appropriately end a topic.

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Communicative

Strategies
Communicative strategies are ways
of sharing information which are
used to achieve particular social,
political, psychological or linguistic
purposes .
The use of communicative strategy is also an
aid to avoid or repair communication
breakdown and being able to use such
strategies make certain speech purpose is not
only achieved but also the development of
communication experience for both the
speaker and listener.
Types of
Communicative
Strategies
1. Nomination

Basically, when you employ this strategy,


you try to open a topic with the people
you are talking to.
When this strategy is used, the topic is
introduced in a clear and truthful manner,
stating only what is relevant to keep the
interaction focused.
You may use expressions such as: “Let’s
talk about…” “Do you know…?” “How
about…?”
2. Restriction
Refers to any limitation you may have
as a speaker. On some cases of
communication, there are instructions
that must be followed. Those instructions
confine you as a speaker and limit what
you can say.
You may consider the following
expressions for restricting a topic: “May
we just talk about this matter and lay aside
other matters?” or “Please just expound
on the topic and nothing else.” or “This is
the only topic we need to cover today.”
Example: “They say that Philippine economy is getting
better. Do you agree?”
In the sample statement you were only limited by answering
either with a Yes or a No response.

The teacher instructed: “Brainstorm with your pair about


Philippine economy at present and then deliver a speech
about it.”
In this example, you are restricted with a single topic and
you are confined to discuss only on matters about Philippine
economy.
3. Turn-taking

Pertains to the process by which people


decide who takes the conversational
floor. The primary idea is to give all
communicators a chance to speak.
To acknowledge others, you may employ visual signals
like a nod, a look, or a step back, and you could
accompany these signals with spoken cues such as
“What do you think?” or “You wanted to say
something?”
Examples:
“May I have the floor, sir?”
“Excuse me? I think we should speak one at a
time, so we can clearly understand what we
want to say about the topic.”
"Go on with your ideas. I'll let you finish first
before I say something."
4. Topic control
It should be remembered that when a topic
is initiated, it should be collectively
developed by avoiding unnecessary
interruptions and topic shifts.
You can make yourself actively involved in the
conversation without overly dominating it by
using minimal responses like “Yes,” “Okay,” “Go
on”; asking tag questions to clarify information
briefly like “You are excited, aren’t you?”, “It
was unexpected, wasn’t it?”; and even by simply
giving non-verbal cues.
5. Topic shifting
Involves moving from one topic to another. In
other words, it is where one part of the
conversation ends and where another begins.
This strategy works best when there is
followthrough so that new topic continues to
be discussed.
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,”
“we can also include”, and other topic
shifting expressions.
6. Repair
Refers to how speaker address the
problems in speaking, listening and
comprehending that they may encounter
in the conversation
It is a self righting mechanism in any
social interaction.
Examples:
"Excuse me, but there are five functions of
communication not four.“
“I'm sorry, the word should be pronounced as
pretty not priti."
“You said perfect. Did I get it right?”
7. Termination
Refers to the conversation participants’
close initiating expressions that end a
topic in a conversation. It uses verbal and
nonverbal signals or messages that both
speaker and listener send to each other.
Examples:
Best regards to your parents! See you
around!
“It was nice meeting you. Bye!" "That
is all for today class, goodbye!"
Engage and Power up!
Read carefully the following statements. Determine
the communicative strategy each statement portrays.
Choose the correct answer from the choices.

Nomination Restriction Turn-taking


Topic control Topic shifting
Repair Termination
1.Best regards to your parents! See you around!
2. By the way, there's a new shop opening at the mall
3. Hi, Juan! Did you watch the news today? There
was a news item about new cases of COVID 19…
4. In your class, you might be asked by your teacher
to brainstorm on peer pressure.
5. Can we all listen to the one who talk in front of us?
6. One of the essential lessons I gained from the
discussion is the importance of sports and wellness
to a healthy lifestyle.
7. Excuse me, but there are 5 Functions of
Communication not 4.
8. “What do you think?
9. In addition to what you said about the beautiful
girl is that, she is also smart.
10. Go on with your ideas. I'll let you finish first
before I say something

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