The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780893919610)

This volume offers a theoretical exploration of the concept of the communication system as a tool of social inquiry. Focusing on the discourse of conflict management, Arno explores the linkage between everyday communication about conflict, through talk and other forms of message exchange among individuals and groups, and large-scale societal conflicts and the institutions that shape change by maintaining dominant forms of communicative causation (cause and effect in social situations). This volume also develops a theory of the relationship between conflict and communication that demands ethnography as a theoretical necessity.

Author: Andrew Arno
ISBN-10: 0893919616
ISBN-13: 9780893919610
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.86w x 0.49d