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I'm sort of surprised by both the replies to my comment so far, because I think it's the article itself that conflates the two definitions. When the quote is, "
by tunesmith 6y ago
I'm sort of surprised by both the replies to my comment so far, because I think it's the article itself that conflates the two definitions. When the quote is, "Happy couples tend to take a solution-oriented approach to conflict, and this is clear even in the topics that they choose to discuss" that's clearly pointing to the more academic definition of "argument" and not the "upset about opposing points of view" definition. If two people are taking a solution-oriented approach regarding a conflict they are choosing to discuss, would you normally describe them as "arguing" in the emotional sense?
I'd also disagree that one is significantly more common than the other, when the phrase "making an argument" is so commonly understood.
- arcticfox 6y agoI'd be shocked to find more than 1 in 1000 English speakers to interpret an couple arguing as anything other than > 1) an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one. As opposed to a definition common in other contexts, eg academic, legal, political, like > 2) a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
- tunesmith 6y agoWould 999 out of 1000 people describe "taking a solution-oriented approach to conflict" as a heated exchange of diverging or opposite views? It's probably just a sloppy article - the paper's abstract doesn't describe that behavior as "arguing". In fact, the string "arg" doesn't show up on the study's page at all: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335327845_What_are_the_Marital_Problems_of_Happy_Couples_A_Multimethod_Two-Sample_Investigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335327845_What_are_...