Every day, we engage in various conversations.

We talk with our family, friends, classmates, and other

individuals to develop connection and relationships. To keep the teaching-learning process going at
school, we share ideas with our teachers and classmates. As we grow older, we are exposed to
conversations that maybe done with different approaches based on situations and factors such as
educational background or degree of closeness and relationship. Additionally, conversations are not just
limited to face-to-face interactions. Our ability to communicate is enhanced and can now reach all
corners of the world help of technology. We chat, we exchange views on a Facebook post, and we call
with our mobile phones. The challenge for us is on how to start, maintain, and conclude a conversation
successfully. We need to make sure that our messages are clearly understood by our listeners. We need
to make people interested on what we are saying so that they can give their knowledge about the topic.
We can use communicative strategies to achieve a positive and effective communication. But why my
communicative strategies change as there are adjustments in every speech context, speech style, and
speech act?

Communicating with other individuals could lead to two outcomes, positive or negative. In able to avoid
making inappropriate responses or having a bad relationship with other people, I employ
communicative strategies to avoid this. Humans are capable of expressing and thus sensing a variety of
feelings. This means that the listener or viewer can interpret even small variations in tone, body
language, and context. We do these changes instinctively throughout our speech to adjust the situation.
Talking to a teacher and talking to my best friends or my romantic partner may seem similar since both
involve some form of communication. However, both instances differ from each due to the formality of
each instances. Talking with my adviser would constitute formal communication since communicating
with her is a serious and professional conversation. Therefore, speaking to my adviser would involve a
rigid language structure; this involves me carefully choosing the words I use while communicating, using
complete and proper sentences and good grammar to ensure it sounds professional. Talking to my best
friends or romantic partner, on the other hand, is informal communication since I have a casual
relationship with them. The nature of the language I would use with them would be more fluid and less
rigid. It makes sense to vary the volume of my voice when speaking to one person (Interpersonal dyad),
a small group (Interpersonal Small Group), or a large group of people. The tone, the way I make eye
contact, the hand movements, everything is different. When speaking in a full of crowd and having my
speech in stage, I can walk around and reach every corner of the stage. This is veritably different from
sitting across from a one person and speak one- on- one. You don’t need to speak loudly if you have a
small crowd; you need to speak clearly and loudly in a very big crowd. There are communicative
strategies that are more suitable in every situation.

The world we live in provides dynamic conditions that force us to modify and adjust our actions and
manner of speech with others. In a similar way, awareness to various situations changes the intent,
manner of delivery, words and strategies that we apply to the various conversations. Communicative
strategies such as repair, topic shifting, restriction, topic control, turn-taking, nomination and
termination, will be used to maintain the connection in order to successfully impart the message and
achieve the purpose of communication. As a student and an individual, I must learn this because I can
use this in speaking with different people and I need to shift my communicative strategies, speech style,
and speech acts depending on the context, what is the relationship between the speaker and the
listener and what is my role as a speaker to conduct a successful communication with other people in
every situation.