The article deals with the basic strategies and tactics to take the communicative initiatives for positive communication between husband and wife. The author describes the strategies of confrontation and cooperation, as well as subtypes of these strategic dominants reflecting the protective, manipulative and informative directive nature of the communicative initiatives. The examples of explication of the communicative initiatives in the marital discourse are represented in the article.

The article deals with monopolization of communicative initiative in interpersonal communication by the example of the marital discourse. The author represents a number of factors that influence such a type of behavior in the intergender dialogue. The means of explication of the communicative initiative in the marital discourse are described. The classification of the types of dominance of communication partners in the process of gaining and holding the initiative in communication are represented in the article.