Greco Morasso, Sara 2008 This paper aims at clarifying the ontology of conflict as a preliminary for constructing a conflict mapping guide (Wehr 1979). After recalling the main definitions elaborated in different disciplines, the meaning of conflict is elicited through semantic analysis based on corpus evidence. Two fundamental meanings emerge: conflict as an interpersonal hostility between two or more human subjects, and conflict as a propositional incompatibility. These two states of affairs are significantly related, because the latter tends to generate the former whenever the incompatible positions are embodied by as many parties who feel personally questioned. The semantic analysis allows sketching the ontology of the conflictual situation that can serve to generate a conflict mapping guide, and facing several crucial aspects that are relevant both to the study and to the management of conflicts. In the former perspective, it allows the comparison of the situation of interpersonal conflict with the seemingly similar process of controversy. application/pdf https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318305 https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318305 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318305/files/GrecoMorasso_PC_2008.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1075/pc.16.3.06gre info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318305 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Pragmatics & cognition. - John Benjamins publishing company. - 2008, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 540-567 Conflict resolution socio-cognitive conflict mediation ontology semantic analysis controversy info:eu-repo/classification/udc/65 The ontology of conflict http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501