The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation / Edited by Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada, Jakob Steensig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stivers, Tanya

Mondada, Lorenza.

Steensig, Jakob, 1958-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics ; no. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, Knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are satisfying our rights and fulfilling our responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some state of affairs.

This book brings together an International team of leading linguists, sociologists and anthropologists working across a range of European and Asian languages to document some of the ways in which speakers and the moral domain of knowledge in conversation. The volume demonstrates that if we are to understand how speakers manage issues of agreement, affiliation and alignment-something clearly at the heart of human sociality-we must understand the social norms surrounding epistemic access, primacy and responsibilities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction / Tanya Stivers Stivers, Tanya, Lorenza Mondada Mondada, Lorenza, Jakob Steensig Steensig, Jakob 3

Part II Affiliational consequences of managing epistemic asymmetries

2 The management of knowledge discrepancies and of epistemic changes in institutional interactions / Lorenza Mondada Mondada, Lorenza 27

3 Claiming epistemic primacy: yo-marked assessments in Japanese / Kaoru Hayano Hayano, Kaoru 58

4 Morality and question design: "of course" as contesting a presupposition of askability / Tanya Stivers Stivers, Tanya 82

5 Addressing epistemic incongruence in question-answer sequences through the use of epistemic adverbs / Trine Heinemann Heinemann, Trine, Anna Lindström Lindström, Anna, Jakob Steensig Steensig, Jakob 107

6 The epistemics of make-believe / Jack Sidnell Sidnell, Jack 131

Part III Epistemic resources for managing affiliation and alignment

7 Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments in interaction / John Heritage Heritage, John 159

8 The terms of not knowing / Leelo Keevalik Keevalik, Leelo 184

9 Proposing shared knowledge as a means of pursuing agreement / Birte Asmuß Asmuß, Birte 207

10 Ways of agreeing with negative stance taking / Auli Hakulinen Hakulinen, Auli, Maria-Leena Sorjonen Sorjonen, Maria-Leena 235

11 Epistemics and embodiment in the interactions of very young children / Mardi Kidwell Kidwell, Mardi 257

Part IV Toward a framework

12 Sources of asymmetry in human interaction: enchrony, status, knowledge and agency / N. J. Enfield Enfield, N. J. 285.

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511921674

9780521194549

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.