Warning- Explicit Language
This is a clip from the film , Wedding Crashers. It shows a prime example of the two forms of talk in mediation: venting and negotiating. You can see here that the couple spends quite a bit of time "venting" and making crude and despicable comments toward each other in an attempt for asset battle. They have choice words and insult each other as to break the other person down in hopes that they can win the battle. The characters played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson work as mediators to ease the hostility between the opposing sides. The "venting" turns into "negotiating" and the couple is able to come to some type of agreement about the assets.
It is the difference in the use if language and tone, that people are able to come to an agreement, and we are able to see the difference between "venting" and "negotiating." In mediation, we witness the use of words that help to make it to this transition.
Why is is that we go through these phases such as "venting" and "negotiating" when it comes to mediation? What can we say about how we communicate on the idea that "venting" comes before "negotiating" in mediation?
Dobkin, D. (2005) Wedding crashers. Los Angeles: New Line Cinema.
