Epistemic stance in dialogue : knowing, unknowing, believing / Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zuczkowski, Andrzej, author.

Bongelli, Ramona, author.

Riccioni, Ilaria, 1968- author.

Series:

Dialogue studies ; Volume 29.

Dialogue Studies (DS), 1875-1792 ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and which they express through lexical and morphosyntactic means.According to the results of our studies of different types of corpora, these positions can be reduced to three basic ones: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB). In the first part of the book, we present the KUB model and its psychological and linguistic backgrounds. In the second part, we provide an exemplary application of the model, by presenting the qualitative and quantitative analysis of dialogues belonging to different genres and contexts.The volume is addressed to scholars concerned with the topical issues from a theoretical and analytical perspective.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. KUB as a theoretical model and a method of analysis

Chapter 1. Psychological background

Chapter 2. Linguistic background

Chapter 3. Knowing, Unknowing, Believing positions

Chapter 4. Are certainty and uncertainty psychological realities?

Part 2. KUB in dialogues

Chapter 5. “What should I do?”

Chapter 6. Confidence attitudes and epistemic management in the clairvoyant-journalist interviews

Chapter 7. “Who is the killer?”

Chapter 8. Three epistemic models

Chapter 9. KUB, mind, brain, speech acts

References

Transcription notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 10, 2017).

OCLC:

1491310534