Abstract
The article analyzes communicative deviations that occur during the communication between German native speakers and non-native speakers, particularly Ukrainians. Despite existing intercultural and sociolinguistic studies, the analysis of language specificity that causes communicative deviations, failures and misunderstandings remains relevant and understudied. The purpose of this article is to identify and explore the German language peculiarities that cause misunderstandings in communication for non-native speakers, in particular Ukrainian speakers, and offer the algorithm for the representatives of different ethnic communities to help them avoid and resolve possible conflicts given the study of German as a foreign language. The status of the concept of communicative deviation in intercultural communication under conditions of insufficient communicative competence is determined in this article. The study uses the term communicative deviation in favor of a generalized term, a broad concept of linguistic, speech and communicative deviations in dialogic speech, in particular between native German speakers and non-native speakers. The empirical research was based on the speech activity of Ukrainian students during classes at the Department of German Studies and Translation (levels B2–C1) of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2019–2021 academic years and definitions from the Universal Dictionary of German Duden, in addition to the materials reflected in textbooks and teaching manuals as well as from authentic German-language sources. Communicative deviations are identified and analyzed in phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic aspects.
Highlights
Modern communicative linguistics actualizes the study of fundamental and universal concepts that have already been in the focus of linguistic research and among which the phenomenon of communicative deviations remains most controversial in intercultural communication.The relevance of the topic is determined by its focus on formulating recommendations for preventing communication failures and, as a result, achieving cooperative balance between speakers in intercultural communication given the realia, norms, conventions, maxims and rules of interpersonal and group communication.The purpose is to identify and explore the German language peculiarities that cause misunderstandings in communication for nonnative speakers, in particular Ukrainian speakers, and offer the algorithm for the representatives of different ethnic communities to help them avoid and resolve possible conflicts given the study of German as a foreign language
Systematization of scientific literature on the researched issue allows to assume that the study of communicative deviations as a phenomenon is substantial to foreign language learning
Further we suggest the analysis of communicative failures that occur in the process of learning German as a foreign language or during communication with native speakers of different languages, German and Ukrainian, and cause mistakes and misunderstandings in communication
Summary
Modern communicative linguistics actualizes the study of fundamental and universal concepts that have already been in the focus of linguistic research and among which the phenomenon of communicative deviations remains most controversial in intercultural communication.The relevance of the topic is determined by its focus on formulating recommendations for preventing communication failures and, as a result, achieving cooperative balance between speakers in intercultural communication given the realia, norms, conventions, maxims and rules of interpersonal and group communication.The purpose is to identify and explore the German language peculiarities that cause misunderstandings in communication for nonnative speakers, in particular Ukrainian speakers, and offer the algorithm for the representatives of different ethnic communities to help them avoid and resolve possible conflicts given the study of German as a foreign language. Modern communicative linguistics actualizes the study of fundamental and universal concepts that have already been in the focus of linguistic research and among which the phenomenon of communicative deviations remains most controversial in intercultural communication. The relevance of the topic is determined by its focus on formulating recommendations for preventing communication failures and, as a result, achieving cooperative balance between speakers in intercultural communication given the realia, norms, conventions, maxims and rules of interpersonal and group communication. The purpose is to identify and explore the German language peculiarities that cause misunderstandings in communication for nonnative speakers, in particular Ukrainian speakers, and offer the algorithm for the representatives of different ethnic communities to help them avoid and resolve possible conflicts given the study of German as a foreign language
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