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- Title
Communication and Moral Conflict.
- Authors
Freeman, Sally A.; Littlejohn, Stephen W.; Pearce, W. Barnett
- Abstract
Moral conflict, a common problem in modern society, occurs when groups argue from incommensurate positions in fractious debate. Such conflicts are characterized by persistence, predictable structure, and morally attenuated discourse. Responses to moral conflict may involve rhetorical eloquence, or the application of standards of good persuasion from within the moral tradition, but such communication has little effect outside of the moral order from which it emanates. The frustration arising from this pattern often leads to reciprocated diatribe and the use of violence. A potentially more constructive approach is transcendent eloquence, in which interveners or the conflicting parties themselves develop a new framework for understanding and comparing such conflicts. The ideas in this paper Eire based on a number of case studies, and the case of the New Christian Right and its critics is featured.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION; SOCIOLOGY; ADVERTISING; CONDUCT of life; ETHICS; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 1992, Vol 56, Issue 4, p311
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570319209374421