An Integrative Review of the Premises of the Premises and Causes of Conflict Interactions

Abstract

The paper presents interdisciplinary views on the causes and premises of conflict interactions, initiated in the behavioral plane by force of verbal and non-verbal conflict triggers. The relation of genetic, situational short-term and socially-acquired longterm factors to the emergence of inner psychophysiological states of the individual, fostering conflict interactions, is reviewed from a psychophysiological perspective. A linguopragmatic aspect of unleashing interpersonal conflicts is examined in the light of the theory of face, well-known in linguistic studies, where face represents a social value, which a person endeavors to obtain, preserve and restore by means of certain communicative acts, including those leading to conflicts.