Neither Naïve nor Critical Reconstruction: Dispute Mediators, Impasse, and the Design of Argumentation
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- 作者：Aakhus ; Mark
- 关键词：argument strategy ; conflict ; dialogue formats ; dispute mediation ; impasse ; reconstruction ; third ; parties
- 刊名：Argumentation
- 出版年：2003
- 出版时间：2003
- 年：2003
- 卷：17
- 期：3
- 页码：265-290
- 全文大小：86 KB
- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Philosophy
Logic
Social Sciences - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1572-8374
文摘
This study investigates how dispute-mediators handle impasse in the re-negotiation of divorce decrees by divorced couples. Three sources of impasse and three strategies for handling impasse are identified based on analysis of mediation transcripts. The concern here lies not so much in the disputant's arguments but in the discussion procedures dispute-mediators use to craft the disputant's argumentation into a tool to solve conflict. Their moves are understood here as a practice of reconstructing argumentative discourse that is neither naïve nor critical but reconstruction as design. Mediator's reconstruction reveals a type of communication work in contemporary societies involved in the crafting of forums and formats that mediate argumentative communication. This work is often invisible and strategic which makes its interpretation, judgment, and development a challenge for pragma-dialectical theory. How reconstruction as design can be understood is discussed by building on prior pragma-dialectical theory and research.