{"id":1120,"date":"2022-04-06T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/the-concept-of-tact\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:56:05","slug":"the-concept-of-tact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concept of Tact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Concept of Tact: Polite Ways To Express Yourself\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OUZGgeNOHQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">There are better or more appropriate ways of communicating certain information so that we don\u2019t sound \u201ctoo pointed\u201d or \u201ctoo direct\u201d or \u201cinsulting\u201d or \u201cuncultured\u201d or even \u201cfoolish.\u201d This is leads to the Concept of Tact<\/span>. <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">People who speak just \u201canyhow\u201d are often accused of lacking tact in communication. Someone said something to you and you felt that the person did not apply some \u201ctact.\u201d Why? It is because the language has something in common with politeness and common sense. As a matter of fact, tact is one kind of politeness. In this article, we shall attempt to look more closely at this Concept of Tact<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">the various ways communicators apply some tact or tactics in communication in order to achieve their desired goal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/The-Concept-of-Tact.mp3\" autoplay><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Concept of Tact &amp; Polite Ways of Expression<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d9297a84a6f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d9297a84a6f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/#Tact_as_a_Pragmatic_Concept\" >Tact as a Pragmatic Concept<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/#Tact_as_Politeness\" >Tact as Politeness<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/#Forms_of_Illocutionary_Function\" >Forms of Illocutionary Function<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/#Face-Saving_Tact\" >Face-Saving Tact<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/the-concept-of-tact\/#CONCLUSION\" >CONCLUSION<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tact_as_a_Pragmatic_Concept\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark280;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark282;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930097;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Tact as a Pragmatic Concept<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"_Toc46930097\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">According to Adegbite (2000) tact or \u201ctactics\u201d is a means of interpreting the discourse value of information encoded in a word and its relationship with other linguistic items which precede or follow the items as well as some other non-linguistic factors of communication-based on the communicative context of an utterance. \u201cDiscourse value\u201d is the meaning that the speaker or writer expects his hearer\/reader to decode or interpret. A question for example may not be intended to elicit any answer at all, but may aim at eliciting another kind of response from the participant.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Rhetorical questions do not generally demand any verbal answers. Tact, therefore, is that alternative discourse options that are available to you, that will enable you to communicate more comprehensively, appropriately and most friendly. If I asked you, \u201cdon\u2019t you think your shirt needs washing?\u201d You are not likely to respond, \u201cYes, I think it does.\u201d You will know I am tactically suggesting that you wash your shirt. On the other hand, you\u2019re likely to feel embarrassed if I told you: \u201cyour shirt is dirty; go and wash it.\u201d Below is a news item that appeared on the cover page of <i>Most prominent News&nbsp;<\/i>magazines for so many weeks during the later part of 2011. It said,&nbsp;<i>\u201cWho killed Gaddafi<\/i>?\u201d It is indeed a question, but is it really a question? What kind of answer does it demand?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tact_as_Politeness\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930098;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark289;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark287;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark286;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Tact as Politeness<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"_Toc46930098\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">When communicators apply tact in speaking or writing, they do so in order to present some serious subject that may ordinarily appear offensive in a more polite and receptive manner. And we must point out here that one of the principal aims of tact is to achieve politeness. In pragmatics, we always pay attention to the force of our utterance. When people speak, their words or expressions generally have some force (or illocution) on the hearer. And this illocution may be positive or negative. To increase the level of politeness, it is recommended that it is better to use more indirect kind of illocution. According to Leech (1983), the indirect illocutions tend to be more polite because they increase the degree of options that people have and then the more indirect an illocution is the more diminished its force tends to be. Let me illustrate with the following examples:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEieyvuhfS4s4TidXpmktNX4J8AMIuOZgmPl9TSq-YQ1exwqSnPHZfpODquqYDxVDRNqVnyH0ASGvIn1L80AWm8tCaMLG37ZQJFBm9MW7_BRbb8RtuTkyXtus7V-I8Izh7Rt8kDeXXp3qe9CHfWXtkE2c9a7AdoAQp7mVETZ1q4gTgpAkf9GROlWqwqY\/s939\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEieyvuhfS4s4TidXpmktNX4J8AMIuOZgmPl9TSq-YQ1exwqSnPHZfpODquqYDxVDRNqVnyH0ASGvIn1L80AWm8tCaMLG37ZQJFBm9MW7_BRbb8RtuTkyXtus7V-I8Izh7Rt8kDeXXp3qe9CHfWXtkE2c9a7AdoAQp7mVETZ1q4gTgpAkf9GROlWqwqY\/w640-h252\/image.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"The Concept of Tact - Tact as Politeness\" title=\"The Concept of Tact - Tact as Politeness\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Sometimes, some indirect illocutions function as commands, while some don\u2019t. An offer such as \u201cwon\u2019t you come in?\u201d implies that coming in is in the interest of the person being addressed although it doesn\u2019t sound too polite. On the hand, \u201cwill you return my book?\u201d sounds rather harsh and authoritative. \u201cWould you mind returning my book?\u201d is indirect and polite.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Leech (1983) argues that the tact maxim essentially has two sides to it, i.e. a negative side, meaning \u201cminimize the cost to <i>y<\/i>\u201d and positive side \u201cmaximize the benefit to <i>y<\/i>.\u201d This means that in proposing an action to <i>y, z<\/i> should direct his illocution towards a positive outcome by restricting y\u2019s option of saying \u201cNo.\u201d Thus an imperative like \u201crelax\u201d or \u201chelp yourself\u201d which does not allow <i>y<\/i>to say No, is actually a positive polite way of making an offer. A positive force might even be added to it by a persuasive emphasis of \u201chave a drink\u201d or \u201cyou must have a drink.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forms_of_Illocutionary_Function\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930099;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark298;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark296;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark295;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Forms of Illocutionary Function<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Illocutionary functions are those functions that correspond to what the speaker or writer intends to achieve in the mind of the hearer or reader. As we have observed earlier these functions or goals may be positive or negative. Leech (1983) identifies four (4) types of illocutionary functions that are possible in different types of context, especially in relation to achieving social goals of maintaining comradeship. They are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"bookmark299\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(i)<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Competitive; this illocutionary goal competes with social goals e.g. ordering, asking, demanding, begging<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"bookmark300\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(ii)<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Convivial; this illocutionary goal coincides with social goals e.g. inviting, greeting, thanking, congratulating<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"bookmark301\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(iii)<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Collaborative; this illocutionary goal is indifferent to the social<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">goal; asserting, reporting, announcing, instructing<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"bookmark302\"><\/a><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">(iv)<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Conflictive; this illocutionary goal conflicts with social goal e.g. threatening, accusing, cursing, reprimanding<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">Only the first two involve politeness, however where the illocution is competitive, it only tends to reduce discord in case of competition between y and z. etc.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Face-Saving_Tact\"><\/span><span style=\"mso-bookmark: _Toc46930100;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark311;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark309;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: bookmark308;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">Face-Saving Tact<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a name=\"_Toc46930100\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">All we have discussed so far about the concept of tact and how it relates to politeness is to show the various ways individuals use language to achieve the desired aims and sustain social relationships. When a speaker tries not to cause offence, he is said to be protecting the hearer\u2019s face. So face-saving tact is a strategy in communication aimed at lessening someone feeling of threat or fear. It might be in form of a polite request or a statement that is actually a question, in order to reduce someone\u2019s possibility to feel threatened, embarrassed or insulted. \u201cCould you possibly close the door please\u201d is a more face-saving tact than an imperative \u201cclose the door!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CONCLUSION\"><\/span><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\">CONCLUSION<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">You will agree with me that tact is very important in language use. You can imagine how peaceful our families and societies would be if everyone should apply some tact in the way we talk to one another. You will also agree with me that most conflicts in our society today is traceable to the fact that someone had forgotten the principle of face-saving and the other person had reacted rather harshly. We should now begin to apply these principles in our language use so that our relationships might be better as well as our world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are better or more appropriate ways of communicating certain information so that we don\u2019t sound \u201ctoo pointed\u201d or \u201ctoo 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