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The morality of knowledge in conversation / edited by Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada & Jakob Steensig.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Place of publication not identifed] : Cambridge University Press, c2014Description: xix, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781107671546
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P 95.45 .S75 2014
Contents:
Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Affiliation consequences of managing epistemic asymmetries -- Chapter3. Epistemic resources for managing affiliation and alignment -- Chapter4. Toward a framework
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 fulfilling our rights and 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 manage 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation General Education GC P 95.45 .S75 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000014143

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Affiliation consequences of managing epistemic asymmetries -- Chapter3. Epistemic resources for managing affiliation and alignment -- Chapter4. Toward a framework

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 fulfilling our rights and 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 manage 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.

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