The process of diversification of the non-verbal communicative components in the modern English discourse

Keywords: code system, discourse, diversification, interaction, non-verbal component, verbal component

Abstract

This article focuses on the specific properties of the combinability of non-verbal components with each other in the modern English discourse including the characteristics of their interaction with verbal components. The structural, semantic and pragmatic features of non-verbal components as well as their universal, ethnospecific and individually meaningful characteristics are taken into account. The paper is based on the discourse methodology in analysing communicative phenomena. The complex nature of communication is presented as the unity of verbal and non-verbal components within the anthropocentric paradigm in language and speech research. This paper provides the research of the combinability of non-verbal communicative components with each other, the result of which is presented by different clusters of non-verbal components taking into account the characteristics of a discursive personality upon which depend the ways of diversifying the information and emotion through non-verbal components. The analysis of discourse-constitutive potential of kinesic, proxemic and prosodic communicative components contributes to developing the theory of discursive interaction of different code systems aimed at the investigation of communicative signs of different nature in their unity within the frames of different types of discourse.

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Published
2020-11-30
How to Cite
Soloshchuk, L. (2020). The process of diversification of the non-verbal communicative components in the modern English discourse. Cognition, Communication, Discourse, (21), 50-60. https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2020-21-04