Argumentation and Aggression: About Maps and Poems in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Journal: East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2018

Argumentation as a function of human communication, and aggression as a feature of communicative behaviour, seem to be contrary to each other. Argumentation should be understood as the regulation of dissent based on rational arguments, whereas aggression can be seen as the manifestation and intensification of dissent. But the boundaries between rationality and irrationality, as well as between the regulation and the manifestation of dissent are often vague. Therefore, not only hate speech but al