Mimetic Mechanisms for Modifying Conceptual- Evaluative Space in Institutional Stratagy and Tactics Variation

This article examines the principle of communicative mimesis theory within the institutional discourse of social work. The study aims to determine the role of mimetic mechanisms of communicative imitation in enhancing the functional and pragmatic potential of stratagy and tactic alternatives in the communicative space of social work discourse. The scientific novelty of the results lies in the interpretation of mimesis as a core space for the instrumentalization of the communicant’s cognitive base, creating a pseudo-identification space. Within the framework of hermeneutic-noematic and discursive-modus analysis of polilogical non-cooperative forms of interaction, the mimetic process is divided into intentional, based on phenomenological reflection, and nonintentional noematic, created intuitively based on affective-emotive imitation, when a two-way symmetrical communication model is achieved. Furthermore, mimetic practices, being amphibolic in nature, act as a discursive marker for various communicative tactics used to achieve the stated goal of transforming the conceptual-evaluative space of the counter-communicant. Communicative mimesis, as an intentional or unconscious mechanism of a counter-directional destructive pattern, is viewed as mockery, creating communicative barriers that lead to misunderstanding and complete cessation of interaction. At the same time mimetic techniques, as constructive imitative patterns, are an effective mechanism for harmonization. A comprehensive analysis of imitative non-cooperative communicative practices in terms of creating conflictual or syntonic forms of communication is prospective.

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