Everyday descriptions of misconduct are morally implicative rather than neutral reports.

Evidence

Descriptions of people, activities and state of affairs are not simply reports on the world. They are accountable discursive phenomena through which we recognizably display an action’s (im)propriety or (in)appropriateness, and they provide ‘a basis for evaluating the “rightness” or “wrongness” of whatever is being reported’ (Drew, 1998 , p. 295). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 585

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the discourse-analytic principle that descriptions are ‘accountable discursive phenomena’ doing moral work.