The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation (Frontiers in Psychotherapy Series)

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 and effect in social situations). This volume also develops a theory of the relationship between conflict and communication that demands ethnography as a theoretical necessity.Andrew Arno is the author of 'The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation (Frontiers in Psychotherapy Series)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780893919610 and ISBN 0893919616.