Types

Communicative
Strategies
• Communicative Strategies- are
plans/ways/means of sharing
information which are adopted
to achieve a particular social,
political, psychological or
linguistic purpose
• 1. Nomination
• Presenting a particular
topic clearly, truthfully and
saying what is relevant
• 2. Restriction
• Constraining the
response/reaction
within a set categories
• 3. Turn-taking
• Recognizing the
response/reaction within
set of categories
• 4. Topic control
• Keeping the interaction
going by asking questions
and eliciting a response
• 5. Topic Shifting
• Introducing a new topic
followed by the
continuation of that topic
• 6. Repair
• Overcoming
communication
breakdown to send more
comprehensible messages
• 7. Termination
• Using verbal and
nonverbal signals to
end the interaction