COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS OF REFUSAL TO ANSWER AND CONVERSATIONAL MOVES OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION
Li Qin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Submitted: 22.10.2018
Abstract. The article discusses the communicative tactics of refusal to answer and the conversational moves that are used by a speaker to implement this communicative tactics. Refusal to answer is refusal of one of the communicants to cooperate: the addressee of the question signals directly his/her unwillingness to provide the necessary information or makes it clear indirectly. Refusal indicates the communicative failure of the questioner, who does not achieve his/her illocutionary goal. The author analyses various ways of expressing explicit - direct and indirect - and implicit refusal.
Key words and phrases: коммуникативная тактика, коммуникативный ход, отказ от ответа, прямой отказ от ответа, косвенный отказ от ответа, communicative tactics, conversational move, refusal to answer, direct refusal to answer, indirect refusal to answer
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