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ORAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT
Objectives:

1 Distinguish various types of communicative strategies;

2 Use acceptable, polite, and meaningful

communicative strategies;

3 Engage in a communicative situation;

4 Explain the effects of a shift in communicative

strategy;
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 People communicate every day to
establish and maintain relationships,
know and understand themselves, and
find meaning in the daily grind.
Moreover, since humans are social
beings who survive more effectively
through sensible discourses, they are
always driven to learn the skills of
creating and sustaining meaningful
conversations.
 Successful communication requires
understanding of the relationship
between words and sentences and the
speech acts they represent. However, a
conversation may be complex at times;
that is why some people get lost along
the way and misunderstand each other.
It is only when we willingly cooperate
and speak in socially approved ways
that we can make a conversation
meaningful.
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NOMINATION

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NOMINATION
A speaker carries out nomination to
collaboratively and productively establish a
topic. Basically, when you employ this
strategy, you try to open a topic with the
people you are talking to.
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RESTRICTION

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RESTRICTION
Restriction in communication refers to any
limitation you may have as a speaker. When
communicating in the classroom, in a meeting,
or while hanging out with your friends, you are
typically given specific instructions that you must
follow. These instructions confine you as a
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speaker and limit what you can say.
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TURN-TAKING
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TURN-TAKING
Sometimes people are given unequal opportunities
to talk because others take much time during the
conversation. Turn-taking pertains to the process by
which people decide who takes the conversational
floor. There is a code of behavior behind
establishing and sustaining a productive
conversation, but the primary idea is to give all
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TOPIC CONTROL

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TOPIC CONTROL
Topic control covers how procedural formality or
informality affects the development of topic in
conversations. For example, in meetings, you may
only have a turn to speak after the chairperson
directs you to do so. Contrast this with a casual
conversation with friends over lunch or coffee where
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you may take the conversational floor anytime.
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TOPIC SHIFTING

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TOPIC SHIFTING
Topic shifting, as the name suggests,
involves moving from one topic to
another. In other words, it is where
one part of a conversation ends and
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where another begins.
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REPAIR

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REPAIR
Repair refers to how speakers address the problems
in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they
may encounter in a conversation. For example, if
everybody in the conversation seems to talk at the
same time, give way and appreciate other’s initiative
to set the conversation back to its topic.
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TERMINATION

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TERMINATION
Termination refers to the conversation
participants’ close initiating expressions
that end a topic in a conversation. Most of
the time, the topic initiator takes
responsibility to signal the end of the
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