Coda: On the Politics of Ethics

ABSTRACT

This coda rereads the contributions to the Politics of Ethics Dialogue as an occasion for collectively rethinking ethics in sociolinguistics. Rather than offering a summary of each text, it traces how questions of responsibility, relation, listening, refusal and form emerge across the collection in different but connected ways. In doing so, it suggests that ethics cannot be reduced to procedure, moral certainty or correct position‐taking but appears instead as an ongoing and contested practice of response. The coda closes by returning to ethics in sociolinguistics not as a position to achieve but as a way of staying in touch with voices that resist comprehension and call forth response, leaving the Dialogue open and unfinished.