Anatomias do conflito

Abstract

The present work aims to examine how some sequential instances that we are considering as conflict episodes happen interactionally. The analysis is implemented based on the theoretical framework of a interactional linguistics, from the policies of reserach undertaken by Conversation Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics. This is a case study which was produced based on audio recordings, which were transcribed according to the Jeffersonion model of transcription (LODER, 2008), done in the Family Court of a town in southeastern Brazil, in which a social worker is placed as third party, during the production of technical advice, in a process of regulatory visits. The litigants, fictitiously called Flávia and Amir, along with Sônia (nickname assigned to the representative of the institution) produce confrontational actions that trigger processes of accounts which, instead of closing, end up investing deeply in dispute, which means that accounts not only normalize participants‟ expectations, but can also generate more conflict talk, depending on the ongoing actions and the topic being discussed. The study intends to be a contribution to research in applied linguistics related to professions, as it seeks to describe the different anatomies of the conflict from the interactional choices of the agents. Furthermore, this project may also be a contribution to the practitioners of endoprocessual mediation, as it describes, from the intersection of topics and actions, the ways the participants involved do things in certain circunstances which are quite common in this type procedural conduct. Thus, this thesis “dissects” the various sequential bodies that conflict episodes assume, given their different contours according to the topical and actional features involved.