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The ontology of conflict

Greco Morasso, Sara

In: Pragmatics & cognition, 2008, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 540-567

This paper aims at clarifying the ontology of conflict as a preliminary for constructing a conflict mapping guide (Wehr 1979). After recalling the main definitions elaborated in different disciplines, the meaning of conflict is elicited through semantic analysis based on corpus evidence. Two fundamental meanings emerge: conflict as an interpersonal hostility between two or more human subjects,...