POSITIVE FUNCTIONING OF REFUSAL TO COMMUNICATE IN SOCIAL INTERACTION

The present paper deals with refusal to communicate, that is situations when people send verbal or nonverbal messages about refusing to communicate or they pretend that they do not want to communicate, using it as a manipulation strategy. This research is a part of a broader study entitled “Positive communication” and done by a group of scholars from Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Russia. The work aims at introducing the results of the conducted research concerning the positive aspects of functioning of the refusal to communicate in social interaction. It represents the classification with suggested criteria, covering the functions, means of expression and communicative strategies, illustrated by a number of multiple examples taken from analyzed data, which makes the research work realistic, vivid and clear to the reader