Abstract
The paper provides a comprehensive review of English language identity representation that is evident from pragmatic and psycholinguistic distinctive traits revealed through its discursive image within conflict interaction. The research highlights pragmatic types of conflict interaction and defines specific speech repertory of strategies and tactics employed by the characters depicted in contemporary fictional texts. Specified here is the entity of invective, its quantitative parameters being defined. Functional peculiarities of verbal and non-verbal means of communication have been studied in detail. The specificity of their frequency in the pragmatic types of the English conflict interaction has been considered. Emphasized in the investigation is the psycholinguistic nature of such interactive communication phenomena as communicative conflict, strategies and tactics. The typology of language identities has been elaborated on the basis of communicative strategies analysis. As a result of the research, three-level communicative competence classification has been developed based on the ground of the English language identity’s ability of constructing cooperative interactive communication. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s3p147
Highlights
In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in the problem of effective communication
The research methodology of the language identity manifestation via conflict interaction implies a stagewise analysis: a) to draw on the Anglo-American fictional texts discursive segments selected with the help of conflict interaction signals; b) to determine the language identity types; c) to establish strategies and tactics employed by the interlocutors in the process of conflict interaction construction with regard to theoretical and practical pragmatic implications well suited to these type of task; d) to calculate the ‘invective’ notion quantitative parameters resulted in the ‘inveɫtive’ lexical- semantic organization with the field theory applied; e) to determine the statistical frequency of nominative and communicative units used by a certain language identity type with the lingual-statistical analysis employed
As exemplified in the English-speaking novels by Stephen Ʉɿng the findings described in the paper confirm the demarcation lines drawn between ɿnvective, courtly and rational-heuristic language identity types compared on the ground of lexical-grammatical, stylistic and pragmatic signals with regard to the speakers psychoemotive distinctive features
Summary
Researchers have become increasingly interested in the problem of effective communication. According to H.P. Grice, effective communication has a conventional and intentional impact on the listener from which the recipient recognizes the speaker’s intention. Suggested by H.P. Grice "principle of cooperation" prescribes accomplishment of "communication maxims" aimed at achieving effective communication “the principle of cooperation” is observed only in "socially neutral communication", and it presents "an ideal communicative situation Conflict speech situation is characterized by disregarding conversational maxims of quality and quantity and politeness maxims (Leech, 1983, 75). Modern researchers of conflict dialogue aim to create a linguistic model of conflict verbal interaction which, in turn, requires systemic analysis. Expansion paradigm theory about conflict communication ontology determines the urgency of this article
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