КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЕ ТАКТИКИ УКЛОНЕНИЯ В НАУЧНОМ ДИСКУРСЕ
COMMUNICATIVE QUESTION EVASION TACTICS IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The article is centered on the forms of realization of communicative question evasion tactics in scientific discourse. In total, 12 tactics are singled out and analyzed (ignoring the question, explicit refusal to answer, criticism of the question, rephrasing of the question, topic switching, etc.). The analysis of the tactics results in defining the communicative pragmatic factors that account for the specificity of their realization in scientific communication: the responder’s epistemic state, his/her situational communicative intensions, etc. The author shows that the participants’ communicative behavior in the situation of question evasion on the whole complies with common communicative conventions governing scientific discourse (the demands for cooperation, politeness, tolerance) and conforms to its fundamental communicative intentions, including joint search for verity and the elaboration of knowledge.

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