Dániel Zoltán Kádár (MTA NYTI, University of Huddersfield)

Interpersonal interaction and the moral order

In this lecture, I will overview the notion of the ‘moral order’ and its implications to the modelling of interpersonal relationships. The notion of ‘moral(ity)’ is relatively rarely used in language and interaction studies, even though it has been broadly studied in psychology, sociology and other disciplines. I will argue that studying morality and the moral order of things – i.e. perceptions of ‘appropriate’ interpersonal relationships and language use associated with these relationships – is a key to capture the dynamics of the ways in which interpersonal relationships are worked out and maintained in interaction. This is particularly the case when one examines intercultural interaction, i.e. interpersonal settings in which the interactants come from different cultural backgrounds.

The present talk is largely based on a recent publication (Kádár 2017).

Kádár, D.Z. 2017. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

2017. október 26. 11.00, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet