COMMUNICATION BARRIER IN INTERVIEW: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FEATURES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME (CASE STUDY OF THE GERMAN PRESS)

Abstract

Communication barriers are a communicative and pragmatic phenomenon that prevents effective com 1 - munication in a portrait interview as a dialogical form of communication. The article reveals the psycholinguistic nature of communicative barriers, which are a kind of communicative failures and are caused by a misunderstanding of the pragmatic plan of the journalist’s utterance by the addressee, his communicative intention. The reasons for the emergence of communicative barriers are described, including the individual psychological characteristics of the addressee’s personality, as well as differences in the value and social attitudes of the interview interlocutors. The utterance with a communicative barrier in a portrait interview was found to acquire the function of psychological defense and in linguistic terms corresponds to such reactions of the addressee as interrupting and refusing to answer. Two communicative tactics of overcoming communication barriers are identified: the image sustaining tactics and the tactics of keeping to the subject. They are used by a journalist for the local continuation of interaction but are ineffective for overcoming the addressee’s communicative counteraction