Communicative Factors as Aggravators and Moderators in Couple Conflict
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The aim of this paper is to identify the parameters that both exacerbate and moderate communicative conflicts within intimate couples. A corpus of conflictive conversations from four couples, recorded in familial and spontaneous settings, was used. Comparative and contrastive analysis results reveal two dimensions of disagreement: one concerning controversial ideas and the other involving social relationships, with conflict intensifying when the emphasis is placed on the latter. Conflict aggravation is also associated with a rapid pace of exchanges, short interventions, intensified speech acts, and the accumulation of hostile acts. Moderation strategies include attenuation, dialogical reflection, and the use of I-Self.
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