Mundane morality: Gender, categories and complaints in familial neighbour disputes

Autor:	Derek Edwards, Elizabeth Stokoe
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Moral reasoning Morality Language and Linguistics Social cognitive theory of morality Education Moral development Moral psychology Psychology Everyday life Social psychology Culpability Moral disengagement media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. 9:165-192
ISSN:	2040-3666 2040-3658
DOI:	10.1558/japl.v9i2.25735
Popis:	The paper introduces the concept of ‘mundane morality’, which refers to the practices of everyday life in which people mix moral evaluations, a sense of right and wrong, blame and culpability, etc., with ordinary accounts and descriptions of persons, actions, and events. Challenging traditional psychological work on moral development, including Gilligan’s work on the gendered nature of moral reasoning, we argue that ‘morality’ is best understood as a communicative practice. Rather than focus on identifying gendered styles of moral reasoning, we show how gender is invoked to do moral work in an episode of recorded neighbour dispute mediation. We analyse the way in which parties make complaints on the basis of gendered category memberships, and show how ‘the accountability of social conduct brings directly into focus moral dimensions of language use’ (Drew 1998: 295). Overall, we aim to show how to analyse ‘moral reasoning’ as it happens; as it is imbricated in the daily practices of everyday life.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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