Invektivität - Perspektiven eines neuen Forschungsprogramms in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften

Abstract

This article aims to introduce the concept of „Invecticity“ as a new perspective for social and cultural studies. It understands phenomena of insult and debasement, of humiliation and exposure as - cross-cultural and epoch-spanning - basic operations of societal communication. Due to their disruptive, stabilising or dynamising effects on social order, invective communication have the potential to unite and shape societies. This article subsumes such phenomena under the term Invectivity. The term includes all aspects of communication (either verbal or non-verbal, oral or written, gestural or graphic) that are used to degrade, to hurt or to marginalize others. Manifestations and functions of the Invective are not systemised under strict patterns but medially, politically, socially and aesthetically contextualized depending on the diverse historical contexts and complex constellations they occur in. Thus, they can only be properly understood as performative events which develop through the interaction of ascription, response and follow-up communication as well as by means of the social, discursive and media conditions in which they arise.

Of Hypocrites, Whores, and Holy Animal Bones. Polemical Comparisons and the Invective Mode in Early Reformation Disputes

“…For a case study on the complex relations between orality, scripturality, and visuality in Reformation sermon literature adopting late antique traditions, see Toepfer (2010). 32 Ellerbrock et al (2017) depict this interrelationship as a dynamic triangle. 33…”

“…See Ellerbrock et al (2017): The Collaborative Research Centre 1285's concept of 'invectivity' is a tool to analyze and describe various phenomena of verbal and symbolic aggressions against individuals or groups in a transcultural and interdisciplinary research context. See also Steckel (2020) as well as Israel (2019) and Pausch (2021) on medieval and ancient roots of invective rhetoric.…”

Körper-Kränkungen

“…Das kann viele Gründe haben: die Täter bleiben ungenannt oder unbekannt; sie werden geschützt; die Per-3 Eine wesentliche Grundlage für das Konzept der Invektive und den SFB 1285 »Invektivität. Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzung« der TU Dresden bietet die Konzeptgruppe Dagmar Ellerbrock, Lars Koch, Sabine Müller-Mall, Marina Münkler, Joachim Scharloth, Dominik Schrage, Gerd Schwerhoff (2017), Invektivität -Perspektiven eines neuen Forschungsprogramms in den Kultur-und Sozialwissenschaften, in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 2. Jg., H.1, 2017, S. 1-24.…”

Polemical Comparisons in Discourses of Religious Diversity: Conceptual Remarks and Reflexive Perspectives

“…I follow her suggestion to take a pragmatic view, combining an approach sensitive to contemporary semantics with a functional definition; see also n. 25 and 44. Related is the concept of "invective" or "invectivity," which centres on disparagement and humiliation; see Ellerbrock et al (2017) and Schwerhoff (2020, 11-12) for a definition.…”