“ You can’t say that”

The effects of group affiliation on moral condemnation in cases of group self-deprecation

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ID22342187
AuthorsMagi Otsri (0000-0003-1185-7387, Hebrew College, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue3
Pages303-319
Publication date2020-12-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ld.00072.ots
OpenAlexW3111387102
LanguageEN
References cited17

Why does our moral intuition tend to differ when a person uses deprecating speech towards her own affiliation group as opposed to an outer affiliation group? This paper offers a descriptive mapping of moral intuitions behind group self-deprecation (GSD) as stemming from two theoretical fields: pragmatics and standing. The first possible explanation to our moral intuition focuses on the moral flaw in the utterance of condemned (i.e., the person using GSD). Here, I argue our moral intuition suggests the group affiliation of the condemned affects the utterance’s pragmatic interpretation, thus affecting its offensiveness. An alternative explanation focuses on the critic . Here, I argue practices of standing lay behind the offhand rejection of critiques from outer-group members, regardless of their validity

Epistemology · Intuition · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Utterance · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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