Puyu Ning | Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Hungary
In this position paper, we provide an overview of what we regard
as the most important features of the relationship between the moral order and
morality in the context of language conflict and aggression. While in previous
pragmatic research the concepts of morality and moral order have been rarely
brought together, we illustrate that they are inseparable, in particular in the
context of conflict and aggression. We propose an analytic model – with
replicability in mind – which captures the dynamic relationship between these
phenomena: the model is centred on the idea that perceived (a) violations of the
moral order, (b) breaches of moral norms, principles and ideologies, (c)
conflict and (d) aggression constitute a cluster. The explanatory power of this
dynamics resides in the fact that it can account for a variety of seemingly
unrelated scenarios, such as conflicts triggered by the violation of
interactional norms vs. rites of moral aggression. Along with detailing the
model, we explore the relationship between various methodologies through which
one can examine morality and the moral order in the context of language conflict
and aggression.
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