SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement

儿童权利委员会调查不同历史时期和文化中的辱骂、羞辱和贬低现象，将其视为社会交流的基本操作。《儿童权利公约》提出了一种新的人文科学和社会科学研究视角，旨在把握贬损沟通的前提条件和影响，使之能够在不同的语境中加以描述。在这样做的过程中，迄今被孤立地考虑的现象--如不文明、亵渎、诽谤、仇恨言论、言语或象征性暴力--被纳入一个共同的分析框架。CRC将冲突概念化为一种交际模式，在这种模式中，冲突被演绎地产生、动态化和转化。对于CRC的方法，关键的出发点不是从事贬低行为的人的意图，而是假设不敬行为在一个复杂的网络中实现，该网络由交际行为、受话人和观察者的语义化反应、审美调解和话语谈判过程组成。作为社会秩序的一种破坏性、稳定性和动力性因素，谩骂交流形成了社区，塑造了社会，同时具有破坏性和生产力。根据其概念，《儿童权利公约》开发了一个通用的术语和比较启发式方法，将其15个分项目的不同主题和问题相互讨论，以便进行系统和历史比较。在此基础上，儿童权利委员会正致力于建立一种综合侵害性理论。儿童权利委员会分项目中的示范分析涵盖了从古代到现在的广泛的历史范围。除历史方面外，儿童权利委员会在其第二个供资阶段将越来越多地关注文化状况和谩骂过程的纠葛。在第二个筹资阶段，儿童权利委员会的目标是推进其概念，首先，关注参与的过程，即人们被吸引到谩骂活动中并被配置为被邀请者或被邀请者的过程。其次，儿童权利委员会将更系统地关注已经固化为结构的不敬的条件和影响，例如，以社会规范、媒体惯例或认知秩序的形式。儿童权利委员会确定了特别适合追溯这些参与和结构形成过程的三个核心领域，因此将作为第二个供资阶段的跨项目主题：(1)规范性/道德性，(2)叙事性/叙述性，(3)情感/情感。此外，儿童权利委员会打算在下一阶段通过探索其边界地区来发展侵害性的概念。为此，儿童权利委员会将探索批评、幽默和暴力的三种情结。

The CRC investigates phenomena of vituperation, humiliation, and disparagement across historical periods and cultures, approaching them as fundamental operations of societal communication. With the concept of invecti-vity, the CRC develops a new research perspective in the humanities and social sciences that is meant to grasp the preconditions and effects of disparaging communication, making them describable across contexts. In doing so, phenomena that have so far been considered in an isolated manner – framed, e. g., as incivility, blasphemy, defamation, hate speech, verbal or symbolic violence – are integrated into a common analytical framework. The CRC conceptualizes invectivity as a communicative mode in which conflicts are performatively generated, dynamized, and transformed. For the CRC’s approach to invectivity, the key point of departure are not the intentions of people engaged in disparaging actions; it rather assumes that invectivity realizes itself within a complex network of communicative actions, semanticizing responses by addressees and observers, and processes of aesthetic mediation and discursive negotiation. As a disruptive, stabilizing, and dynamizing element of social orders, invective communication forms communities and shapes societies, being destructive and productive at the same time. With its concept, the CRC develops a common terminological and comparative heuristic that brings the diverse topics and issues of its 15 sub-projects into conversation with each other, allowing for systematic and historical comparisons. On this basis, the CRC is working toward a synthesizing theory of invectivity. The exemplary ana-lyses in the CRC's sub-projects cover a broad historical spectrum, ranging from antiquity to the present. In addition to the historical dimension, the CRC, in its second funding phase, will increasingly focus on the cultural situatedness and entanglements of invective processes. In the second funding phase, the CRC aims to advance its concept, first, by attending to processes of involvement, i. e., to the processes by which people are drawn into invective events and configured as invectors or invectees. Second, the CRC will pay more systematic attention to conditions and effects of invectivity that have solidified into structures, e. g. in the form of social norms, media conventions, or epistemic orders. The CRC has identified three core dimensions of invectiviy that are particularly suited for retracing these processes of involvement and structure formation, and which will therefore serve as cross-project themes for the second funding phase: (1) normativity/morality, (2) narrativity/narratives, and (3) affectivity/emotions. Moreover, the CRC intends to evolve the concept of invectivity in the coming phase by exploring its border zones. To this end, the CRC will explore the three complexes of criticism, humor, and violence.