Conflict Resolution - (Hardcover)

About the Book

What makes conflicts escalate quickly or resolve peacefully? Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of language and education, this volume reveals linguistic and pedagogic strategies to transform conflict into cooperation, e.g. in courtrooms, media, classrooms, public relations or religious discourse.

Book Synopsis

What makes some conflicts escalate? In what ways can the skills to use words wisely shape the resolution of disputes? Can language and education help us find common ground? Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Interface of Language and Education invites you to see how confrontation can transform into cooperation. The volume reveals how communication builds bridges where divisions once stood, e.g. in courtrooms, classrooms, media, public relations, science communication or religious discourse. With its interdisciplinary focus, this collection unites linguistics and educational sciences to show why mastering conflict resolution strategies is essential to addressing the conflicts that define our time.

Contributors are: Esther S. Afreh, Christian Bär, Lara Herford, Pascal Hohaus, Aida Jalanesh, Mithilesh Kumar Singh, Anna Kuzio, Emmanuel Kyei, Anurag Mittal, Iira Rautiainen, Inmaculada Sanchis Vidal, Violeta Stojičic, Collin Syfert, Jonas Trochemowitz, and Daniela Wawra.

About the Author

Pascal Hohaus is a lecturer at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. His dissertation Subordinating Modalities: A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions (J. B. Metzler, 2020) applies construction grammar to the use of modal verbs in subordinate clauses. He co-edited Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, Co-text, and Context (John Benjamins, 2020) and The Future of Teacher Education: Innovations across Pedagogies, Technologies and Societies (Brill, 2023). He is also the editor of Science Communication in Times of Crisis (John Benjamins, 2022) and The Language of Digital Education (Brill, 2025).

Violeta Stojičic is a Professor of Linguistics and EFL at the University of Nis, Serbia. She is the Editor in Chief of the journal Facta Universitatis Series: Language and Literature and Book Review Editor in the Journal of Language and Discrimination. She is a visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Ventspils, Latvia. Her linguistic interests include Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse analysis.