Parole che dicono emozioni

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of language in conflict re-composition, understood not as mere reconciliation, but as the conscious acquisition of the emotional significance of relational rupture. From a linguistic perspective, it explores how words can transform an inarticulate cry into communicable speech. The analysis focuses on the distinction between manifested, argued, and explicitly stated emotions, highlighting the power of verbal language to shape and give meaning to emotional experience. Words allow the emotional dimension of conflict and the underlying interests to become visible, thus decisively enhancing the quality of communication. Ultimately, language becomes a tool of mediation aimed at generating shared meaning (or “consensus”), as it makes possible overcoming the absence of an expected good.