Tolerance Tactics in Everyday Dialogical Discourse
While studying tolerance the researchers pay special attention to the selection of speech means that make for implementation of the speaker's certain tactics. Silence, like other materially expressed units, functions in various communicative situations, expresses some definite meanings, and contributes to the achievement of the communicative goal by the subject of communication. The purpose of this article is to extract specific silence tactics in the structure of the tolerant everyday speech behavior. The analysis is based on dialogues related to various types of everyday interaction. Everyday communication has a number of distinctive features, such as: immediacy, unpreparedness, personification, emotionality, sincerity, easiness, non-obligation to comply with the conventional norms appropriate to the institutional communication, the high role of non-verbal means of communication in the capacity of other extralinguistic factors. These specific features stipulate the communicant's frequent appeal to the silence, which, like an utterance, is able to act as a text in the communicative interaction and at the same time serve as a marker of the tolerant Russian speech behavior. This study enabled us to outline silence tactics among which the tactic aimed at avoiding the discomfort zone by the subject of the speech stands out as the main one: discomfort can be created by the topic of the conversation, by the subject matter, by the interlocutor's assessment, by the behavior of the partner or his values that contradict the norms of an addressee.