Communication Noise as a Discourse Component

Authors

Ganna OLIINYK National University "Odessa Maritime Academy", Odessa, Ukraine
Natalia BIGUNOVA I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine
Olena SELIVANOVA The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v14i1.325

Keywords:

communication, discourse, communication noise, barrier, vagueness, ambiguity

Abstract

The paper focuses on the investigation of communicative noise at various levels of monocultural and intercultural communication. Communication noise is seen as a component of a communicative event, functioning as obstacles of different nature that lower the effectiveness of communication, destabilize it and are able to cause communicative conflict or the breakdown of communication. In linguistic pragmatics the main features of communication noise have been identified as vagueness and ambiguity of a message: vagueness is characterized by a bigger degree of noise than ambiguity. The authors of the article have tried to probe more deeply into the area of communication noise by singling out levels of communicative situation. The article offers a differentiation of five discourse levels: verbal-semiotic, cognitive-interpretational, interactive, ontological and sociocultural levels. The main part of the paper analyzes the barriers that cause communication noise at each of the offered levels of communicative situation. The raised issues offer prospects for further research, such as investigating of noise effects in real communication, identifying a set of causes leading to communication noise, as well as noise-resistant factors, preventing or removing it.

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Author Biographies

Ganna OLIINYK, National University "Odessa Maritime Academy", Odessa, Ukraine

Is a senior lecturer at the English Language in Ships` Engineering Department, National University "Odessa Maritime Academy", Odessa, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include cognitive linguistics, communicative linguistics, pragmatics, phonostylistics. G. Oliinyk is the author of a dissertation and 7 scientific articles. Recent publications: "The philosophical reflection of misunderstanding phenomenon", "Implicit and explicit communicative means of expressing misunderstanding in artistic discourse", "The communicative realization of misunderstanding in English artistic discourse", "The frame conflict as a reason for misunderstanding in dialogue communication", "Explication of false understanding and false misunderstanding in reproduced discourse".

Natalia BIGUNOVA, I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine

(Dr.) is the professor at the Chair of Theoretical and Applied Phonetics of the English language, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include pragmatics, cognitive semantics, axiology, discourse studies, phonostylistics. N. Bigunova is the author of a monograph and 80 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Positive evaluation: From cognitive judgment to communicative utterance”, “Cognitive pragmatic regularities in communicative manifestation of positive evaluation”, “Illocutionary aims and perlocutionary effect of praise and compliment speech acts in modern English literary discourse”, “Paraverbal means expressing positive evaluation in English film discourse”, “Status and gender relationship of compliment and flattery speech acts participants”.

Olena SELIVANOVA, The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine

(Dr.) is the professor at the Chair of Translation Theory and Practice, The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include communicative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, text linguistics, onomasiology. Bigunova is the author of a monograph and 80 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Linguistic encyclopedia”, “The basis for the theory of speech communication”, “The world of conscience in language”, “Modern Linguistics: trends and problems”.

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2020-04-07

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OLIINYK, G., BIGUNOVA, N., & SELIVANOVA, O. (2020). Communication Noise as a Discourse Component. WISDOM, 14(1), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v14i1.325

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