Pragmatic communicative strategies

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the addressee (receiver).

There is a need to expand the scope of communicative competence to include the notion of 'tactics’ (strategies), as basically, language users would know what language is only if they know what language can do for them.

Communication and communicative competence are incessantly studied by various disciplines such as linguistics, education, artificial intelligence, media, etc.

The continuous interest in communication is due to its involvement in virtually all aspects of human interaction.

Actually, human communication is complex on the linguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, social and emotional lewis.

This is what makes human beings and human interaction worth continuous investigation.

Generally speaking, communicative competence covers four main aspects, namely, 1- grammatical competence, which deals with syntax; 2- sociolinguistic competence .

which covers social appropriateness of communication; 3- discoursal competence that covers cohesion and coherence in discourse; and 4- strategic competence, which focuses on the pragmatic function of communication.

The first three aspects have received great attention by many scholars interested in the study of language, linguistics and particularly in the study of second language learning and acquisition.

However, the fourth aspect is, so far.

rather a neglected area.

Its hypothesized that in case of communication interruption or failure the interlocutors may opt for another strategy which is considered to be appropriate to attain the purpose of the interlocution .

In case the strategy fails they can opt for another which is more affective and more appropriate .

This research work attempts to focus on the communicative strategic competence, which focuses on the ability to use different tactics by language users to deliver the intended meaning (message) of the addresser (sender) to the addressee (receiver).

There is a need to expand the scope of communicative competence to include the notion of 'tactics' (strategies), as basically, language users would know what language is only if they know what language can do for them.