As part of the study of positive communication, involvement in communication is of particular interest, being its structural component and playing a key role in effective communication. This phenomenon is interpreted as the degree of cognitive and behavioural involvement in the communication process. The gradation of degrees of involvement in the process of interaction is under consideration in the article.

Involvement in communication is interpreted as the level of the cognitive and behavioural participation in the communicative process. The phenomenon under consideration is closely connected with such notions as “communicative competence” and “positive communication”, being a structural component of both and, thus, becoming the key component in the issues of effective communication and human relations. The article is devoted to the level of scrutiny of the issue.

Based on the practical experience, there are identified the strategies of refusal to communicate and described the tactics used for their realization.

Refusal to communicate is analyzed from the positions of communication theory. There are sorted out the types of refusal to communicate, marked the parameters of the given classification and characterized its components