@article{discovery10167152, number = {1}, volume = {96}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, title = {'Sneering, or Other Social Pelting'}, journal = {Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume}, note = {{\copyright} 2022 The Aristotelian Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.}, pages = {245--268}, publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)}, issn = {0309-7013}, author = {O'Brien, Lucy}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akac011}, abstract = {My aim in this piece is to understand what kinds of acts sneering acts are. I aim to look at what sneering acts do and what social function they perform. In particular, I want to mark them out as acts of 'making people feel'. I explore the grounds on which we might criticize sneering acts, and ask whether the thing that we do when we sneer is always vicious.} }