Types of Communicative
Strategy
‘Types of Communicative Strategy
A. Turn-taking
It refers to the exchange of turns of participants. This essentially
makes up a conversation. There are equal opportunities for all the
participants to share his/her thoughts about the topic of the conversation.
In general, one participant can start his/her turn in speaking after s/he
uses signals that s/he has to speak.
B. Nomination
It happens when a participant opens up a topic for conversation.
When starting a conversation, especially when it does not arise from any
previous topic, a participant starts off with inquiries.
Restriction
It happens when the participants are limited to everything they speak
(Heritage, 2013). This happens in classrooms, courtrooms, or any settings
wherein the participants are given instructions on what, when, and how they
speak.
Topic Control
It occurs when the subject of the conversation is limited by one
participant (Warren, 2006). This covers how procedural formality and
informality affects the development of the topic of conversation. Just like in
the classroom setting, the teacher provides a topic to be discussed
conversationally.
Topic Shifting
It refers to the process wherein a new topic is introduced within the
conversation (Warren, 2006). The new topic may or may not be related to the
previous topic. It is a process of moving one topic to the other.F. Repair
It refers to the speaker’s practice to approach problems encountered
in conversations (Liddicoat, 2007). It is an initiative to bring back the
conversation to the topic.
G. Termination
‘This refers to the conversational practices used to close a topic (Wong
and Waring, 2010). This is generally aided with pre-closing signals that
denote an end of the topic discussion.