The Academic Seminar as an Arena of Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Jens Allwood · Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University) · 1992
ly speaking, it seems that conflict when applied to communicative action can be reduced to two main types: 1. Making a positive claim which is incompatible with someone elses actions or interest. 2. Denying another persons positive claim. The denial can take at least the following forms: (i) Explicit denial often combined with a counterclaim (ii) Implicit denial often by satire or irony 29 (iii) Denial by relativizing the claim of another person (iv) Denial by appeal to management or procedural features. 6.2.2 Positive claims Any positive claim provides a potential source of conflict if it can be experienced by an interlocutor as incompatible with their interests or with what they believe. A claim becomes an actual source of conflict if anyone experiences it this way and subsequently responds, as if to a conflictual action. A claim, similarly, becomes an intended conflictual action if the person who makes the claim believes it to be incompatible with someone elses beliefs or interes...