Conversational pressure : normativity in speech exchanges / Sanford C. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Sanford, 1967- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Normativity in speech exchanges

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book aims to explore the scope, sources, and nature of the normative expectations that are generated by participants in speech exchanges. Such expectations, I argue, are warranted by the performance of speech acts: the performance of these acts entitles an audience to expect certain things of the speaker, even as these performances also entitle the speaker to expect certain things of her audience. The account I propose postulates two fundamental types of normativity involved in these expectations: epistemic normativity, wherein subjects are expected to live up to certain epistemological standards, whether in the production of or in the reaction to speech acts; and interpersonal normativity, wherein subjects are expected to live up to certain standards of interpersonal conduct (including but not limited to the standards of ethics). In the course of defending the account, the book explores such topics as the normative significance of acts of address, the epistemic costs of politeness, the bearing of epistemic injustice on the epistemology of testimony, the normative pressure friendship exerts on belief, the nature of epistemic trust, the significance of conversational silence, and the evils of silencing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The phenomenon of conversational pressure

Part I: The act of address. Your attention please!

Part II: The speech act: performance and uptake. Conversational pressures, interpersonal and epistemic

The speaker's expectation of trust: some false starts

How to treat a testifier

Anti-reductionism and expected trust

Does friendship exert pressure on belief?

Part III: Uptake of uptake. Conversational silence

Silence misinterpreted: the double-harm of silencing

The social epistemology of public uptake

The epistemic costs of politeness

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259839-2

0-19-188970-9

0-19-259838-4