Disagreement in the context of effective communication (based on the material of Belarusian dramaturgic works)

Authors

  • Hanna P. Latushka Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

addressee, addresser, communication principles, communicative conflict, cooperation, disagreement, disagreement speech acts, effective communication, syntactically indivisible utterances

Abstract

Disagreement with an interlocutor (expressed as a refusal, negative evaluation, disapproval, condemnation and other speech acts forms that signify a negative reaction) has been studied in the context of effective communication, principles of interaction (H. P. Grice, G. N. Leech, R. Lakoff, I. A. Sternin, I. P. Tarasova and others), as well as in the context of cooperative and conflictual relations. The problem regarding the place of conflict in communication has been debated since theoretically conflict contradicts socially correct and relevant behavior and often leads to communicative failures and interruption of communication. On practice it turns out that negative reaction does not always cause conflict, and conflict does not always lead to communication ending. The factors that determine addresser’s neutral reaction on disagreement (expressed by syntactically indivisible utterances in Belarusian dialogue) has been described. For this purpose, the fragments from dramatic texts were considered. The fragments had a form of three-replicate dialogues: a question (request, prompting) – a negative reaction – a neutral (positive) reaction to disagreement. Circumstances that cause such a reaction has been detected: realization of communicatively wrong behavior by the addresser, the higher status of the addressee, the differences in significance of the speech subject for the interlocutors, the playful, uncertain tone of disagreement etc. It was concluded that in Belarusian dialogue a negative reaction does not always cause interlocutor’s negative emotions, it is a natural part of conversation that sometimes even stimulates communication.

Author Biography

  • Hanna P. Latushka, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    postgraduate student at the department of theoretical and Slavic linguistics, faculty of philology

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Published

2019-03-01

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No. 3 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

Section

Linguistics

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Latushka, H.P. 2019. Disagreement in the context of effective communication (based on the material of Belarusian dramaturgic works). Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 3 (Mar. 2019), 73–78.