The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation

by Andrew Arno

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893919616
• ISBN13: 9780893919610
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"