ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses: what is moral talk? what does it do? and what is it good for? It focuses on the methodological implications of the approach, specifically the combination of linguistic data, metalinguistic data and 'armchair' reflection. Then, the book talks about relations between language and the moral or ethical dimensions of people's lives more broadly. It explains about the functions of moral relates to the distinction between 'ethical life' and 'moral systems'. The book focuses on a point of wider theoretical significance – the relationship between the very interpretative view of language adopted, and the much more realist view of morality. It argues that the state of reflexive constitution captures the situation of language itself better perhaps than of any other area of social life.
