Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper presents interdisciplinary views on the causes and premises of conflict interactions, initiated in the behavioral plane by force of verbal and non-verbal conflict triggers. The relation of genetic, situational short-term and socially-acquired long-term factors to the emergence of inner psychophysiological states of the individual, fostering conflict interactions, is reviewed from a psychophysiological perspective. A linguopragmatic aspect of unleashing interpersonal conflicts is examined in the light of the theory of face, well-known in linguistic studies, where face represents a social value, which a person endeavors to obtain, preserve and restore by means of certain communicative acts, including those leading to conflicts. A specific attention is paid to explicit face-threatening acts embodying impoliteness and rudeness, as well as implicit face-threatening acts, apt to initiate a conflict in a more manipulative way. Results of the integrative review of the premises and causes of conflict interactions are presented in the form of a combined classification, the levels of which are placed according to the logic of a hierarchical interrelationship between psychophysiological, psychoenergetic and linguopragmatic factors of the conflict behavior initiation by the communicator. Classification criteria include psychophysiological factors of conflict initiation (genetic, situational, socially-acquired), the instinctive function that feeds the rise of conflict energetically (discharge of an unpleasant affect or generation of a pleasant affect), the dominant cause of conflict (cognitive, social, economic), the way of making an insult (implicit or explicit) and the type of the conflict trigger (verbal, non-verbal, verbal and non-verbal).
Source: Fìlologìčnì traktati
Author: Nataliia Derkach
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412632649