A Review of Studies on Conflict
Abstract: This paper classifies conflict talk into two types — explicit conflict talk and implicit conflict talk, then reviews previous studies of each. The review of explicit conflict talk is done from three perspectives — causes, development and effects. Study of implicit conflict talk is still in its infancy, therefore, some topics for further study have been suggested.
Key Words: conflict talk, explicit conflict talk, implicit conflict talk
1 Introduction
Conflict of discourse refers to verbal events and speech acts such as disagreement, disapproval, opposition, controversy, quarrel, disagreement, dissent, humiliation and verbal abuse among communicative subjects in verbal communication. In the late 1970s, Brennis & Lein (1977), Boggs (1978) began to explore children's discursive discourse and its structural form. Since then, scholars in different fields have begun to study conflict discourse from different perspectives, such as pragmatics and sociology. Ran Yongping (2010a) gives an overview of the study of conflict discourse, but his generalizations are confined to pragmatics. This paper also includes the study of sociology and other fields; on the other hand, this paper will sort out the existing literature from a new …show more content…
2. Explicit conflict discourse research
Up to now, the research on conflict discourse has mainly focused on the discourse of explicit conflict. Scholars have explored their definition, nature, and so on (see Ran Yongping 2010a), but also their generation, development, after effects were studied. The existing literatures are reviewed in the following three aspects: the cause research, the development process research and the post-statement effect research.
2.1 Causes
Abstract: This paper classifies conflict talk into two types — explicit conflict talk and implicit conflict talk, then reviews previous studies of each. The review of explicit conflict talk is done from three perspectives — causes, development and effects. Study of implicit conflict talk is still in its infancy, therefore, some topics for further study have been suggested.
Key Words: conflict talk, explicit conflict talk, implicit conflict talk
1 Introduction
Conflict of discourse refers to verbal events and speech acts such as disagreement, disapproval, opposition, controversy, quarrel, disagreement, dissent, humiliation and verbal abuse among communicative subjects in verbal communication. In the late 1970s, Brennis & Lein (1977), Boggs (1978) began to explore children's discursive discourse and its structural form. Since then, scholars in different fields have begun to study conflict discourse from different perspectives, such as pragmatics and sociology. Ran Yongping (2010a) gives an overview of the study of conflict discourse, but his generalizations are confined to pragmatics. This paper also includes the study of sociology and other fields; on the other hand, this paper will sort out the existing literature from a new …show more content…
2. Explicit conflict discourse research
Up to now, the research on conflict discourse has mainly focused on the discourse of explicit conflict. Scholars have explored their definition, nature, and so on (see Ran Yongping 2010a), but also their generation, development, after effects were studied. The existing literatures are reviewed in the following three aspects: the cause research, the development process research and the post-statement effect research.
2.1 Causes