English Language Identity Representation through Conflict Interaction

Abstract

The paper provides a comprehensive review of English language identity representation that is evident from pragmatic and psycholinguistic distinctive traits revealed through its discursive image within conflict interaction. The research highlights pragmatic types of conflict interaction and defines specific speech repertory of strategies and tactics employed by the characters depicted in contemporary fictional texts. Specified here is the entity of invective, its quantitative parameters being defined. Functional peculiarities of verbal and non-verbal means of communication have been studied in detail. The specificity of their frequency in the pragmatic types of the English conflict interaction has been considered. Emphasized in the investigation is the psycholinguistic nature of such interactive communication phenomena as communicative conflict, strategies and tactics. The typology of language identities has been elaborated on the basis of communicative strategies analysis. As a result of the research, three-level communicative competence classification has been developed based on the ground of the English language identity’s ability of constructing cooperative interactive communication.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s3p147