Pragmatics of social conflict

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Abstract

The social ontology developed by Searle allow us to understand social phenomena from the theory of speech acts. This article exposes Searle´s theory and analyzes the conception of social conflict from this perspective, arguing that it can be understood as the dispute between different communities for the legitimacy of some status function. To achieve this, the theory of speech acts will be reviewed to show that social conflict could be analyzed from this perspective, identifying the intentionality of communities in conflict through linguistic statements.

Keywords:

social ontology, social conflict, speech acts, community, legitimacy

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