Important Dates
Workshop Doing ethics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on communicative practices and verbal devices
2022-10-10 to 2022-10-12
RW I, S 58, University of Bayreuth
Workshop Doing ethics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on communicative practices and verbal devices
10 - 12 October 2022
University of Bayreuth: RW I, S 58
International and interdisciplinary workshop, Bayreuth, 10 - 12 October 2022 Doing ethics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on communicative practices and verbal devices This workshop brings together linguists from different theoretical backgrounds and researchers from social sciences with an interest in moral discourse and everyday moralities. It aims first, to get a better understanding of the nexus between moralities and language – a topic that has so far been largely neglected by linguists –, and second, to gain deeper insights into the communicative functions of interjections in a broad sense, i.e. including 'response cries' (Goffman 1978), modal particles, etc. Interjections are regarded here as a prominent case of 'ethical affordances' (Keane 2017), and the focus is on their relation with moral norms and judgments.
Given our own research foci, we put a spotlight on African varieties of French and their contact languages, but include also other speech communities. Besides data-based work on different interjections in relation with moralizing speech acts and activities, theoretical and methodological issues which contribute to a linguistic conceptualization of 'everyday moralities' (Bergmann & Luckmann 1999) or 'ordinary ethics' (Lambek 2015) take center-stage ...more