A Study of Strategies in Implicit Conflict Talk

With examples from films,plays and literary works,this paper illustrates the strategies adopted by the challenger and the respondent in implicit conflict talk.A contrastive analysis shows that the two parties share some strategies such as questioning,stating,mentioning and promising.It also discovers some differences in the strategies of the two parties.The challenger tends to use commenting and satirizing while the respondent tends to employ quoting and token agreement.The research presents new insights into studies of conflict talk and communicative strategies.