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This document discusses seven types of communicative strategies used in conversation: 1) Nomination to establish topics, 2) Restriction which are limitations of speakers, 3) Turn-taking which determines who speaks, 4) Topic control which affects formality, 5) Topic shifting to move between topics, 6) Repair to address problems in speaking and understanding, and 7) Termination to close topics with expressions. Examples are provided for each strategy type.

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Q2 Module 1

This document discusses seven types of communicative strategies used in conversation: 1) Nomination to establish topics, 2) Restriction which are limitations of speakers, 3) Turn-taking which determines who speaks, 4) Topic control which affects formality, 5) Topic shifting to move between topics, 6) Repair to address problems in speaking and understanding, and 7) Termination to close topics with expressions. Examples are provided for each strategy type.

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MODULE 1

TYPES OF COMMUNICATIVE
STRATEGY
Engaging in a conversation
is not just a simple process
of talking and listening.
Cohen (1990) states that it is
bound by implicit rules that
requires strategies to be able
to start and maintain
conversation.
Types of Communicative Strategy

1. NOMINATION
A speaker carries out nomination to
collaboratively and productively
establish a topic.
NOMINATION

“Have you heard about the


new normal?”
NOMINATION

“I saw your TikTok post on


Facebook. It’s really great.”
NOMINATION

“Have you heard about the


new normal?”
Types of Communicative Strategy
2. RESTRICTION

Refers to any limitation


you may have as a
speaker.
RESTRICTION

You are asked by your


teacher to brainstorm on
peer pressure.
RESTRICTION

You are invited to the police


station to answer some
questions about what you
know about the incident.
Types of Communicative Strategy
3. TURN-TAKING

Pertains to the process by which


people decide who takes the
conversational floor.
TURN-TAKING

Make you response shorter


yet informative enough to
express your ideas and
feelings.
TURN-TAKING

“What do you think?”


“You want to say
something?”
Types of Communicative Strategy
4. TOPIC CONTROL
Covers how procedural formality
or informality affects the
development of topic in
conversations.
TOPIC CONTROL

“Okay, so much for that…”


“Let’s go back to the topic.”
“Going back to what we are
talking about.”
Types of Communicative Strategy
5. TOPIC SHIFTING

-Moving from one topic to


another.
Types of Communicative Strategy
6. REPAIR
-Refers to how speakers address
the problems in speaking,
listening, and comprehending that
they encounter in a conversation.
Types of Communicative Strategy
6. REPAIR
-is the self-righting mechanism
in any social interaction
(Schegloff et. Al, 1977)
REPAIR
-recasting or changing the form of
message to a more understandable
one using the following expression:
“What I mean is….”
“What I am trying to say is that…”
REPAIR
-repeat the speaker’s statement

“Let me repeat myself”


“Again…”
REPAIR
-requesting clarification or
making clarifying question.
“I am sorry but what do you
mean by…”
Types of Communicative Strategy
7. TERMINATION
-Refers to the conversation
participants’ close-initiating
expressions that end a topic in
a conversation.

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