“Who knows best?”
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Jack Sidnell
Abstract
This essay reviews current work in conversation analysis with an eye to what it might contribute to the study of evidentiality and epistemic asymmetry. After a brief review of some aspects of the interactional organization of conversation, I turn to consider the way in which participants negotiate relative epistemic positioning through the use of particular practices of speaking. The analytic focus here is on agreements and confirmations especially in assessment sequences. In conclusion, I consider a single case in which various practices are employed to convey a delicate balance of knowledge and simultaneously to attend to a range of other, non-epistemic, interactional issues.
Abstract
This essay reviews current work in conversation analysis with an eye to what it might contribute to the study of evidentiality and epistemic asymmetry. After a brief review of some aspects of the interactional organization of conversation, I turn to consider the way in which participants negotiate relative epistemic positioning through the use of particular practices of speaking. The analytic focus here is on agreements and confirmations especially in assessment sequences. In conclusion, I consider a single case in which various practices are employed to convey a delicate balance of knowledge and simultaneously to attend to a range of other, non-epistemic, interactional issues.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Foreword
- Evidentiality in social interaction 1
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Introduction
- Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context 13
- Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories 21
- From quotative other to quotative self 57
- Shifting voices, shifting worlds 75
- “Watching for witness” 103
- “Who knows best?” 127
- Nanti self-quotation 155
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Index
- Index 193
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Foreword
- Evidentiality in social interaction 1
-
Introduction
- Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural context 13
- Enhancing national solidarity through the deployment of verbal categories 21
- From quotative other to quotative self 57
- Shifting voices, shifting worlds 75
- “Watching for witness” 103
- “Who knows best?” 127
- Nanti self-quotation 155
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Index
- Index 193
