Some aspects of felicitous communication

Abstract

The advent of the concept of communicative competence in English Language Teaching marked growing attention to the ways and prerequisites of felicitous communication. This paper examines naturally occurring interactions and reports an analysis of politeness and cooperation principles, as well as possible methods of self-presentation in Modern English conversational discourse. Rules of politeness in combination with cooperation attitude assist in achieving effective and felicitous communication. Understanding the effect politeness and cooperation principles, as well as selfpresentation produce will benefit interpersonal communication on different levels. Hence this subject is germane and most topical to education in general and language teaching in particular. Winning your listener’s attention is a challenging and hard job, yet it is worth the effort.