Speech and Communication Strategies in the Professional Training of Seafarers: Linguocultural Features of Maritime Discourse

Abstract

One of the foundations of communication theory is the theory of speech acts, which is considered as a strategy and tactics of speech behavior. The implementation of communication is largely associated with the addressee's attempt to influence the interlocutor. In accordance with pragmatic goals, the speaker chooses a certain speech program, which is organized based on the goal of the relationship, it is precisely this communicative strategy that forms a certain "vector" of the relationship. The more precisely (more adequately) the communicative strategy is chosen, the more successful the results of the speech relationship are for the speaker.

The concepts of communicative strategy and tactics are actively used in modern studies of various discourses. In many cases, communicative strategy is associated with motives, intention, some general (macro) goal and chooses a more adequate way to achieve it. This task is solved by communicative (speech) tactics, which are defined as one or more actions that implement strategies (Isers 2006:110).