Successful Communication via Compromise and its Linguistic Manifestation in English

摘要

The focus of the article is successful communication achieved by means of compromise as a communicative strategy, and its linguistic manifestation. It is important to overcome misunderstanding and conflicts in communication which has become more of a dialogue within and between cultures. Mutual understanding is a desirable outcome of any interaction, because communication is designed to provide it. The research based on English belles-lettres works was aimed at revealing linguistic means employed in the English language to express compromise in monocultural and intercultural communication. There can mainly be singled out three ways of language manifestation of compromise in English: verbal, nonverbal and combined ones. The participants of communication situations under analysis are representatives of Western and Eastern cultures, in the broad sense of these notions. The analysis helped to reveal the preferred way or ways of expressing a compromise decision regarding the cultural identity of a speaker through English as a lingua franca. The awareness of such preferences can promote better understanding between communicants belonging to one or more than one cultures, which is topical for any sphere of human activity.