Competing Discourses of Forgiveness: A Dialogic Perspective

Pederson, Joshua

doi:10.1080/10510974.2013.833526

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“…Future research should also explore communicative aspects of unforgiveness similar to work investigating the communication of forgiveness (e.g., Pederson, 2014; Waldron & Kelly, 2005). Important questions include when and how is unforgiveness communicated between friends?…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships

Boon

Hojjat

Paulin

et al. 2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Friendships fulfill needs for intimacy, belonging, and support and yet have rarely been the focus of forgiveness research. In this study, we explored forgiveness, unforgiveness, and young adults’ experiences of transgressions in same-sex friendships ( N = 407). Our results suggest that, although forgiveness and unforgiveness share important antecedents (e.g., apology status, perceived remorse, and barriers to forgiveness), they are nevertheless empirically distinct constructs, both worthy of further investigation in friendships. For example, unforgiveness predicted unique variance in current friendship status controlling for forgiveness. We discuss several lessons learned from our study about the nature of responses to wrongdoing among same-sex friends (e.g., even when forgiven, offenses may cause longstanding changes in people’s views of their offending friends).

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships

Boon

Hojjat

Paulin

et al. 2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…These studies include investigations of meanings that circulate in talk about workplace relationships (Nykänen & Mikkola, 2020); career ambitions, options, and opportunities (Abetz, 2016; Dutta, 2017; van Gilder & Jackson‐Kerr, 2017); and finances (Romo & Abetz, 2016). Researchers have also illuminated discourses surrounding feminist identity and intimacy in email texts (Faulkner & Ruby, 2015), forgiveness (Pederson, 2014), sensemaking of partners' cell phone use (Miller‐Ott & Kelly, 2016), talk about religion (Widmer, 2013), meanings of purity pledges (Manning, 2014), and meanings of race in intimate contexts (Brummett, 2017).…”

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Relational Dialectics Theory

Baxter

Scharp

Thomas

2021

J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article first provides an overview and brief history of relational dialectics theory (RDT) before turning to a presentation of RDT's basic tenets and theoretical utility. In addition, it also examines how RDT has been applied in studying family contexts and offers suggestions for future directions of RDT-based research. Relational dialectics theory (RDT) addresses the meaning-making process. As the word "dialectics" suggests, the theory's key premise is that the meaning of some phenomenon emerges in the moment through the interplay or struggle of competing possibilities of meaning. Early on, RDT referred to these opposing meaning possibilities as "contradictions" (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996), but the term "contradiction" can carry a pejorative meaning, in addition to the presumption that meaning-making is a binary between only two alternative meanings. Because of these misunderstandings, the newer iteration of RDT refers to the interplay of competing meaning systems, which are labeled

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Conflict and Forgiveness

2019

Communication in Family Contexts

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Competing Discourses of Forgiveness: A Dialogic Perspective

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships

Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships

Relational Dialectics Theory

Conflict and Forgiveness

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