Intentionalität vs. Normierung. Zu einem systematischen Aspekt des Diskriminierungsbegriffs
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Michael Niehaus
Abstract
The paper asks about the scope and limits of the term invectivity. It attempts to distinguish categorically between disadvantage, discrimination and invectivity. The group of left-handers serves as the example. Left-handers have experienced various forms of disadvantage, disparagement and discrimination in the past, not only in our culture. Even today, left-handed people have to adapt to a right-handed dominated world and are disadvantaged in many fields and areas. However, these disadvantages are to be understood as an inescapable effect of the standardisations that are necessarily linked to every civilisation. Left-handers are neither victims of invectives nor does their disadvantage constitute discrimination. However, this is only true if the terms disadvantage, discrimination and invective are not conflated, as is common in the current discussion.
Abstract
The paper asks about the scope and limits of the term invectivity. It attempts to distinguish categorically between disadvantage, discrimination and invectivity. The group of left-handers serves as the example. Left-handers have experienced various forms of disadvantage, disparagement and discrimination in the past, not only in our culture. Even today, left-handed people have to adapt to a right-handed dominated world and are disadvantaged in many fields and areas. However, these disadvantages are to be understood as an inescapable effect of the standardisations that are necessarily linked to every civilisation. Left-handers are neither victims of invectives nor does their disadvantage constitute discrimination. However, this is only true if the terms disadvantage, discrimination and invective are not conflated, as is common in the current discussion.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Invectivity 1
- Notes on Invectivity and Metainvectivity 11
- Intentionalität vs. Normierung. Zu einem systematischen Aspekt des Diskriminierungsbegriffs 27
- who called them, Sunday *Indians or Shwannaks, that is, white people, the most opprobrious name they could invent. Powerful Constructions in the Service of Verbal Devaluation 45
- Unfreiwillige Publikumsinvektive und metainvektive Resonanz 71
- The Gammler as Invective Social Figure. A Proposal for Narrative Discourse Analysis 93
- „Politik den Profis überlassen“? Konstellationen des Invektiven im Kontext von Demonstrationen und Bürgerbeteiligung 115
- „Der Draht ist gut, hält uns ab vom dummen Leben“ 129
- Invektiven im Genozid. Zu Zeugnissen von überlebenden Tutsi 149
- Mention and Use. Invective and Metainvective Discourse Among Football Fans 177
- Vernetzung der Diskurse in der Invektive. Der Fall Silvia Romano 199
- Index 231
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Invectivity 1
- Notes on Invectivity and Metainvectivity 11
- Intentionalität vs. Normierung. Zu einem systematischen Aspekt des Diskriminierungsbegriffs 27
- who called them, Sunday *Indians or Shwannaks, that is, white people, the most opprobrious name they could invent. Powerful Constructions in the Service of Verbal Devaluation 45
- Unfreiwillige Publikumsinvektive und metainvektive Resonanz 71
- The Gammler as Invective Social Figure. A Proposal for Narrative Discourse Analysis 93
- „Politik den Profis überlassen“? Konstellationen des Invektiven im Kontext von Demonstrationen und Bürgerbeteiligung 115
- „Der Draht ist gut, hält uns ab vom dummen Leben“ 129
- Invektiven im Genozid. Zu Zeugnissen von überlebenden Tutsi 149
- Mention and Use. Invective and Metainvective Discourse Among Football Fans 177
- Vernetzung der Diskurse in der Invektive. Der Fall Silvia Romano 199
- Index 231
