Academic Scientific JournalsQuarrel: On some characteristics of the speech genre
Keywords:
maxim of the Politeness Principle, negative face, positive face, speech genre, tactic of conflict communicationAbstract
The present article focuses on the sphere of conflict in human communication. The aim of the research is to identify a number of tactics of conflict communication and the means of their verbal expression applied by interactants within the speech genre of the quarrel on the basis of conflicts or quarrels identified in contemporary British drama. Plays written by representatives of in-yer-face theatre have been chosen as the materials for the present research. Both the secondary speech genre of drama and the primary speech genre of the quarrel it absorbs tend to render the peculiarities of human interaction precisely. The foundation upon which the discussion develops is provided by G. Leech’s (1983, 2014) ideas concerning the Politeness Principle and the maxims it embraces, as well as P. Brown and S. Levinson’s (1987) notion of positive and negative face. The research data revealed that the interactants tend to violate the maxim of Approbation, Opinion-reticence, Modesty and Generosity as tactics of conflict communication; both the negative and positive faces of the interactants become threatened in the course of conflict communication.
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