Doing out-group by doing in-group in Russian and Ukrainian women’ conflict style

Nadine Thielemann

doi:10.1524/slaw.2011.0029

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Doing out-group by doing in-group in Russian and Ukrainian women’ conflict style

Nadine Thielemann

Published/Copyright: September 20, 2011

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From the journal Zeitschrift für Slawistik Volume 56 Issue 3

Abstract

The paper analyses several means and strategies to interactively construe an in-group identity and, thereby, co-construct and exclude an out-group, which are used in the context of Russian and Ukrainian women’s high involvement conflict style. The strategies are verbal, pragmatic and regarding contents. They apply on the level of phrasing, the content level and the level of interaction. The in-group and in effect also the out-group they conceptualise vary. Some devices establish a locally defined in-group which is mostly associated with the opponent in the discussion. Others create an in-group which is wider and culturally or socially defined. Accordingly, their potential to exclude an out-group also varies. It is shown how these strategies interact in the context of the analysed conflict communication.

Keywords: interactive construction of in-group identity; othering in interaction; conflict style; Russian and Ukrainian interaction

Published Online: 2011-09-20

Published in Print: 2011-09

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interactive construction of in-group identity; othering in interaction; conflict style; Russian and Ukrainian interaction