Conflict, Mediated Message, and Group Dynamics: Intersections of Communicationestablishes up a framework to explore the ways in which emotions enter a conflict scenario and investigate their role either as causes or consequences of conflict. The volume's chapters shed new light on the questions of the extent to which context on the one hand and culture-related dimensions on the other are conducive to conflict dynamicity and management either by calming emotionsand conflictor by increasing their severity.

Stephen M. Croucher is professor and head of the School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing at Massey University.

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczykisfull professor of English language and linguistics and head of the Department of Research into Language, Literature, and Translation at the State University of Applied Sciences.

Paul A. Wilson is professor in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Conflict radicalization and emotions in English and Polish online discourses on immigration and refugees-Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Chapter 2 Structuring judgment in conflict scenarios-Mikolaj Deckert
Chapter 3 Communication, Music, and Conflict -Shawn Condon
Chapter 4 The 2013 social protests in Bulgaria: Iconic photographs& image events -Lilia Raycheva, Nelly Velinova,& Mariyan Tomov
Chapter 5 Organizational dissent as a form of conflict -Cheng Zeng
Chapter 6 Conflict, Emotion and Crisis Communication -Audra Diers-Lawson
Chapter 7 Immigrant threat, prejudice, and the growing refugee crisis.Elvis Ngwayuh
Chapter 8 A Review of Work-Family Conflict among European Welfare ModelsFlora Galy-Badenas
About the Editors and Contributors