This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins. Using a critical sociolinguistic approach, Bennett explores the language people use to communicate moral judgement and highlights the relations between the things that people say, the contexts in which they are said and the circulating ideologies about meaning and morality. This is key reading for students and scholars studying language, politics and critical discourse analysis, within linguistics and anthropology.
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| Acknowledgements |
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Moral talk: forms, functions and value |
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Moral philosophy and moral talk |
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Post-crisis Britain, the moral economy and moral panic |
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2 The social, ethical and political lives of language |
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Political life of language |
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3 Form: what counts as moral talk? |
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Stance, evaluation and moral talk |
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4 Function: what does moral talk do? |
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Evaluative language, stance, fact and value |
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Hobart and the multifunctionality of moral talk |
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Situations and ideologies |
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5 Moral systems and ethical life |
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Moral systems and ethical life |
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The linguistic distinction |
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Moral systems, ethical life and radio phone-ins |
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142 | (19) |
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7 Critiquing interpretation |
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162 | (2) |
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Hymes' ethical sociolinguistics |
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Emotivism as a corporate technology |
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Emotivism in political communications |
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Linguistic expertise and arguments for emotivism |
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179 | (7) |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (12) |
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188 | (1) |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (2) |
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What is moral talk good for? |
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192 | (2) |
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Methodology: the field, the meta-field, and the armchair |
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Theory: linguistic interpretivism and moral realism |
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| References |
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| Index |
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Joe Spencer-Bennett is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. He has published articles in the journals Discourse & Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language & Communication and Social Semiotics. His research concerns the ethical and political life of communication.
