Lesson #: Communicative Strategies

Question 1

When you employ this strategy, you try to open a topic with the people you are talking to.

Answer 1

Nomination

Question 2

When beginning a topic, you may start off with news inquiries and news announcements as they promise extended talk.

Answer 2

Nomination

Question 3

This is any limitation you may have as a speaker

Answer 3

Restriction

Question 4

The process by which people decide who takes the conversation floor

Answer 4

Turn-Taking

Question 5

The primary idea is to give all communicators a chance to speak

Answer 5

Turn-Taking

Question 6

Covers how procedural formality or informality affects the development of topic in conversations

ex; in meetings, you may only have a turn to speak after the chairperson directs you to do so.

Answer 6

Topic Control

Question 7

Moving from one topic to another. In other words, it is where one part of a conversation ends and where another begins

Answer 7

Topic Shifting

Question 8

Refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that they may encounter in a conversation

Answer 8

Repair

Question 9

Close-initiating expressions that end a topic in a conversation

Answer 9

Termination

Question 10

Most of the time, the ______ ____________ takes responsibility to signal the end of the discussion as well.

Answer 10

Topic Initiator