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INTRODUCTION
Constraint is derived from constrained, the past participle of the intransitive
[ n trænsət v] verb constrain.
A constraint is:
 something that limits or restricts someone or something;
 control that limits or restricts someone's actions or behavior;
 compulsion, force, or restraint;
 repression or control of natural feelings or impulses;
 Linguistics: a restriction on the operation of a linguistic rule or the
occurrence of a linguistic construction.
THE THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
 is a paradigm [ pærəda m] that views any manageable goal-oriented system as
being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints (at
least one);
 adopts the common idiom "a chain is no stronger than its weakest link” meaning that
processes, structures, texts, organizations, etc., are vulnerable because the weakest
part can always damage or break them or at least adversely [ ædv sli] affect the
outcome;
 uses a focusing process to identify the constraint and restructure the rest of the
resources around it.
APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF COMPLAINTS
 Management;  Education;
 Accounting;  Linguistics;
 Mathematics;  Communication;
 Programming;  Translation;
 Law;  and other fields.
 Science;

A communication constraint is a restriction on the occurrence of communicative
interaction or operation of communication norms, principles, and laws.

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS

COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS AS CONSTRAINTS
 Numerical – refers to the number of communicators:
• two-person: setting; topic; dominance, power, status [ ste təs / stætəs]; formality;
empathy;
• interviewing: + form of interview: standardized vs unstandardized;
• small-group: + stages of group formation: storming, forming, norming, perfprming;
communicative roles;
• public: speaker’s argumentation skills;