The Rhetoric of Motives in Divorce  

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Hooper, Joseph

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 55 no. 04 (Nov. 1993), page 801-813.
Topik: divorce; motives

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Kenneth Burke and C. Wright Milis urged sociologist to see motives as rhetorical constructs that impose meaning onto social interaction. Motives are not inner springs of action , they claimed, but normative vocabularies by which actors define situations. This article gives evidence to their claim by examining vocabularies of motives in divorce. First it documents the indeterminacy and complexity of marital situations from which divorces arose: then it documents a distruct vocabulary of motivies used by divorce initiators and an opposing vocabulary of motives used by noninitiators. The two vocabularies do not match up with the complexities of the preceding marital situations, suggesting that they were indeed rheotorical devices constructed after divorces began. The evidence further suggests that sequential models of divorce in which one stage of dissolution leads to the next are simply artifacts of the motives-as-thetoric phenomenon.

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