ABSTRACT
A primary location for human conflict is in real-time, spoken interaction. Whatever else might attract interest for conflict scholars – strategies, decision games, large-scale intergroup conflict, intrapersonal conflict or email disputes – a great deal of what we might think of as conflict gets expressed, managed and resolved (or not) in and through talk, whether conducted face to face or through some channel. More than articulation of language, talk interweaves vocal, visual, temporal and spatial behaviours as people get things done, create meanings, calibrate relationships and manage identities.
