Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of morality. The volume addresses both how morality gets done through everyday practices, as well as the practical concerns that discussions of morality inevitably entail. It does so by delving into how morality is socially constructed in an array of communicative environments through the lens of a range of different discourse analytic traditions. Drawing on the conceptual tools of moral stance, positioning, responsiveness and authority, the chapters address the ways in which morality is enacted, interactionally negotiated, contested and policed. What emerges from these discussions and analyses is an understanding of morality from a discursive perspective that encompasses both morality as action, in which moral stances become the articulated object of action, and moral framing, in which the situated context itself is morally charged for evaluation.
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Weight: 3g
Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
Publication Date: 12 Jan 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780197618073
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Michael Haugh is Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland Australia. His research interests lie primarily in the field of pragmatics with a particular focus on the role of language in social interaction. He has published more than 120 books and articles including the Sociopragmatics of Japanese (2023 Routledge; with Y. Obana) and Action Ascription in Interaction (ed. 2022 Cambridge University Press; with A. Deppermann). He is a former co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2015-2020) and is currently co-editor in chief of Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Rosina Márquez-Reiter is Professor of Pragmatics and Interaction in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University UK. Her research interests focus on how language is used in social interactions. She has published on indirectness (im)politeness pragmatic variation face-to-face and technology-mediated service encounters multimodality and immobility and publications include The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse (co-ed. 2018 Benjamins) Language Practices and Processes among Latin Americans in Europe (co-ed. 2023 Routledge) and Leveraging Relations in Diaspora (in press Cambridge University Press). She is Associate Editor of Pragmatics founding editor and Editor-in-Chief (2005-2011) of Spanish in Context.