Morality in Discourse
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- ISBN 9780197618066
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 22x156x235 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English 689
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Short description:
Morality pervades all aspects of society. However, morality is not only something that can be talked about, but such talk can have far-reaching, real-world consequences. Language is central to the ways in which morality is understood and practiced. There are gaps though in our understanding of how morality gets practically done in different discourse settings. The aim of this volume is to provide an introduction to research about morality in discourse, and the implications of this for advancing our understanding of morality across other disciplines.
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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.
Centering on the discursive construction and interactional negotiation of morality in a variety of social contexts and practices, this edited collection fills a significant gap in sociolinguistics and discursive approaches to this social issue. With this important and timely volume, Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez Reiter provide an arena for cross-pollination among different approaches in the field of discourse studies and open the way for further investigations of morality in discourse. A foundational read for sociolinguists and discourse analysis interested in the discursive enactment of normativities.
Table of Contents:
1. Morality and discourse (Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez Reiter)
Part 1: Moralizing in Interaction
2. The negotiation of moral improprieties in the everyday interactions of young adult romantic partners (Neill Korobov)
3. The morality of contested descriptions in everyday and institutional settings
(Jessica S. Robles)
4. Negotiating moral responsibility for remedying troubles in institutional encounters
(Bandar Alshammari and Michael Haugh)
Part 2: Morality and Narrative
5. Narrating the Indian hip hop OG: Ethnography, epistemic-deontic stance and chronotypes (Jaspal Naveel Singh and Elloit Cardozo)
6. Moral stance in mothers' stories in online peer advice-giving approach (Loukia Lindholm)
7. Mothering morality in the everyday violence of domestic abuse (Shonna Trinch)
Part 3: The Politics of Morality
8. Morality at the abyss: Grassroots activism, counter-securitization and moral authority in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (Daniel N. Silva)
9. Rituals of morality: Questions of regret and sorrow in news interviews
(Michal Hamo and Zohar Kampf)
10. The discursive construction of morality in political blame games (Sten Hansson)
Part 4: Digitally-Mediated Morality
11. Morality, metapragmatics and race: Debates about whitesplain on social media
(Judith Bridges and Camilla Vásquez)
12. Whose morality is out of order? A case study of deviance and respectability in online chats in China (Chaoqun Xie)
13. Moralizing (un)civil behavior: The case of interpellations on Facebook
(Rosina Márquez Reiter and Patricia Bou-Franch)
