Communicative Strategies of Achieving Agreement and the Problem of Their Typology
The research focuses on the communicative strategies of agreement and is aimed at creating a typology of those strategies. Despite the fact that communication and its strategies are the key concepts of numerous scholarly works, communicative strategies, on the whole, and communicative strategies of agreement, in particular, are not thoroughly structured and there is no frame, containing the whole set of inner communicative characteristics. The article focuses on ‘agreement' as the nuclear concept underlying the classification created on the basis of Dan Brown's books about Robert Langdon. ‘Agreement' presupposes either consensus or an affirmative response based on any type of manipulation. The plot of the books develops in modern society, and the main characters of the books belong to various countries and cultures, including representatives of the United States of America, Spain, Italy, Japan and France, which makes the classification universal. Moreover, the latest book under study was published in 2017, which adds novelty to the research. Taking into account the specificity of the research material, the typology is applicable primarily to verbal strategies and tactics of agreement, but non-verbal, para-verbal and extralinguistic elements of the typology are not excluded and can be examined in subsequent studies.