Rethinking polarization: Discursive opening and the possibility for sustaining dialogue

IF 3.1 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
L. Reinig, R. Heath, Jennifer L. Borda
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ABSTRACT Increased polarization and divisive political speech threaten meaningful civic discussion. This study examines a campus public dialogue to understand how dialogic commitments sustained discursive openings for talking across polarizing positions. Specifically, our analysis identifies three patterns of interaction that constituted sustained openings: conceptual expansion, deliberation of meaning, and dialogic moments. Additionally, we contend two communicative practices extended dialogic commitments: discursive vulnerability and critical reflexivity. Finally, we draw on structuration theory to explain how participants disrupted polarizing political tropes to instead enact rules and resources associated with dialogue. Our analysis asserts a rethinking of polarization as communicative – that is, an enactment of dominant political discourses – and elucidates how students with limited instruction instead sought mutual understanding and authentic engagement.
反思两极分化:话语开放与持续对话的可能性
摘要日益加剧的两极分化和分裂的政治言论威胁着有意义的公民讨论。这项研究考察了校园公共对话,以了解对话承诺如何为跨越两极分化的立场进行对话提供话语空间。具体而言,我们的分析确定了构成持续开放的三种互动模式:概念拓展、意义思考和对话时刻。此外,我们认为两种交际实践扩展了对话承诺:话语脆弱性和批判性反思性。最后,我们利用结构化理论来解释参与者如何打破两极分化的政治比喻,转而制定与对话相关的规则和资源。我们的分析主张将两极分化重新思考为交际性的——即主导政治话语的制定——并阐明了在有限的教学下,学生如何寻求相互理解和真正的参与。
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Communication Monographs
Communication Monographs COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Communication Monographs, published in March, June, September & December, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction. The journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives.
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