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Book SynopsisApproaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent part played by the effects of a wide range of emotions. This multi-disciplinary project draws from communication studies and media, public relations, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, business studies, political science, literature, and cultural studies.
Trade ReviewThis volume provides an innovative and complex examination of the role of emotions and other dynamics for conflict. It is a strong compilation representing diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives and makes a significant contribution to the literature on conflict. There are also key practical applications presented making it suitable for students, scholars, and practitioners. -- John Oetzel, University of Waikato
This is an edited collection displaying new orientations to the study of human conflicts, especially interpersonal ones. It gives welcome attention to the emotional life of people who find themselves in disagreement, studying goals, adolescents, and race, among other personal matters. Culture and group identity, with attention to in-group and out-group relations, are also matters that receive needed attention here. Chapters navigate smoothly between quantitative and qualitative methods, making this a suitable book for anyone seeking advanced understanding of the nature of conflict. -- Dale Hample, University of Maryland, College Park
Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 – Introducing Approaches to Conflict Chapter 2 – A Conflict Model of Communication Theory John E. LaMuth Chapter 3 – Changes in conflict over time: A longitudinal examination of conflict style approaches Stephen M. Croucher Chapter 4 – How do emotions impact conflicts? A neuroscientific perspective François Bogacz & Olga M. Klimecki Chapter 5 – The Role of Shame in Conflict: A cross-cultural Perspective Paul A. Wilson Chapter 6 – Adolescent girls in China: Managing conflicts in gender role expectations Kara Chan, Yu Leung Ng, Jingjie Zhang, and Zhijuan Chen Chapter 7 – Goal vs. relationship-based negotiation: A comparative study between American, Chinese, and Polish negotiators Michał Chmielecki and Łukasz Sułkowski Chapter 8 – Discourse, cognition, ideology: Critical-cognitive perspectives on ideological positioning and conflict dynamics in political discourse space Piotr Cap Chapter 9 – Macro and micro argumentative structures in intercultural conflict: Discourse Analysis Olga L. Antineskul and Tatiana M. Permyakova Chapter 10 – The foreigner, our fellow human being: The discursive means used in reports published in the Polish press to ‘humanize’ immigrants Maria Holubowicz Chapter 11 – Intergroup conflict, WTC and CA: Minority and majority groups Diyako Rahmani Chapter 12 - Communicating emotions related to racial identity issues: A case study Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska Chapter 13 - Standing alone: The long lasting consequences of Ijime and the need for diversity training” Alberto M. Albuquerque About the Editors and Contributors
