The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation.

Cover; The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Title; Copyright; We dedicate this book to Gail Jefferson and her legacy (1938-2008); Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Transcription and glossing symbols; Transcription; 1 Temporal and sequential relationships; 2 Aspects of speech delivery, including aspects of intonation; 3 Other markings; Part I Introduction; 1 Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction; Introduction; Background; Knowledge in social interaction.

Key notions in the study of knowledge in social interactionEpistemic access; Epistemic primacy; Epistemic responsibilities; The morality of knowledge and its implications for interactional cooperation; Cooperation in conversation: alignment and affiliation; About this volume; Conclusion; Part II Affiliational consequences of managing epistemic asymmetries; 2 The management of knowledge discrepancies and of epistemic changes in institutional interactions; Introduction; Knowledge and progressivity of talk and action: the example of itinerary descriptions.

A single case: a knowledgeable speaker who does not knowThe manifestation of the problem; The conjunction of the participants: the opening of the three-way call; Resources for expressing epistemic positions: knowledge verbs; Claiming not to know and questioning the terms of the previous action (je ne sais pas); Dealing with reality disjunctures (je ne connais pas); Evolving epistemic positions; Realizing that the knowledgeable speaker possibly does not know: negative questions; Alternative sources of knowledge: turning to the computer; Call-taker announces results: je vois.

Contrasting epistemic positions (je ne vois pas vs. je vois)The resolution of the case; Conclusion: reversing knowledge asymmetries; Additional transcript conventions; 3 Claiming epistemic primacy: yo-marked assessments in Japanese; Introduction; Japanese particle yo; Evaluation intensity in interaction; Yo- marked first assessments; Yo- marked second assessments; Yo- marked agreements; Yo -marked disagreements; Conclusion; 4 Morality and question design: "of course" as contesting a presupposition of askability; Introduction; Data; Analysis; Contexts of use; Orientations to unaskability.

Multiple responsesDiscussion; Conclusion; 5 Addressing epistemic incongruence in question-answer sequences through the use of epistemic adverbs; Introduction; Linguistic features and data corpus; Preliminary overview of epistemic incongruence and social affiliation in question-answer sequences; Epistemics and morality in jo/ju-accounts; "As you should know" -- jo/ju-accounts that challenge the questioner's ignorance; "As we both know" -- jo/ju-accounts after first accounts; "Your fault" accounts -- treating epistemic incongruence as a moral transgression; Discussion.

6 The epistemics of make-believe.

Demonstrates how we monitor others' rights to, and responsibilities for, knowledge in conversation, and their consequences for affiliation.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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