Specificity of Interaction of Cooperative and Non-cooperative Tactics While Communicating in English as Lingua Franca
Abstract
This article discusses the specificity of interaction of cooperative and non-cooperative tactics. Such interaction occurs during a person’s discursive adaptation while communicating in English as a lingua franca. Based on A. Cogo research, we differentiate between English as a lingua franca (ELF) and English as a native/first language (ENL). The above, in its turn, explains the fact that native English speakers will most likely adapt to interaction in ELF rather than impose ENL standards on non-ENL speakers.
The following principles of tactic interaction have been singled out: a) unification and b) substitution. Tactic interaction based on the principle of unification presupposes using one tactic that ensures successful realization of the other. That is how the negative stereotyping tactic in conjunction with the intimacy achievement tactic ensures the successful realization of the latter. Another example of tactic interaction based on the principle of unification is the interaction of the intimacy achievement tactic with the one of intimacy achievement / manipulation. In case of the latter, politeness that is characteristic of the intimacy achievement tactic can be used with a non-obvious purpose.
In case of tactic interaction based on the substitution principle, there is a transition of one tactic to the other, thus achieving the communicative goal. For example, manifestation of aggression can be changed by the tactic of intimacy achievement. In that case, a communicant’s aggressive behavior can be changed into the reconciliatory one, thus demonstrating readiness to achieve intimacy.
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