ORALCOM: Types of Communicative Strategies

  1. Nomination - begin, nominate, or propose a speaker’s ideas in a conversation.
  2. Restriction - a strategy that contains or restrict the response of the other person involved in the communication.
  3. Topic Control - the one who nominates the topic, reminds anyone who goes off topic to stick to the agreed one.
  4. Topic Shifting - when the first topic has already been discussed, a party to a conversation, nominates another topic.
  5. Turn-taking - each gives others a chance to speak; thus, while one has the floor, the others listen.
  6. Verbal Cues - when a current speaker cues that they are one speaking.
  7. Non-Verbal Cues - may include a nod to the next by the current speaker, or an extended open hand directly to the next speaker.
  8. Repair - communication breakdown happens when the speaker is not understood by the receiver.
  9. Termination - winding up and ending a discussion.