The role of non-verbal means of communication in implementing the strategy of disagreement in conflict communicative acts (based on the American cinema discourse)

Abstract

The article presents the results of analysis of the impact of non-verbal communication on the implementation of the disagreement strategy. In conflict communicative acts of disagreement kinesic, prosodic and proxemic means of nonverbal communication are used. These non-verbal means of communication reinforce the negative emotions in communicative acts of disagreement and reproduce semantic characteristics of the speaker’s communicative acts. These non-verbal means of communication may be used separately from the speaker’s verbal dissent, but also they can accompany it.