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Title Epistemic stance in dialogue : knowing, unknowing, believing / edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Dialogue studies ; 29
Dialogue studies ; 29.
Contents Intro -- Epistemic Stance in Dialogue -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Stance, stancetaking, epistemic stance -- Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB) positions -- What is KUB for? -- Plan of the book -- Chapter 1. Psychological background -- 1.1 Perception and cognition as rule-governed systems -- 1.2 Perceiving and cognising as processes -- 1.3 Experience as a verb and as a noun -- 1.4 Reality -- 1.5 Degrees of experiential reality -- 1.6 Language and linguistic communication: The semantic relationship of reference -- 1.6 Language and linguistic communication: The semantic relationship of reference -- 1.7 The twofold reference of language to experience -- Chapter 2. Linguistic background -- 2.1 The semantic interpretation of texts/dialogues -- 2.2 Natural and theoretical interpretation -- 2.3 Sense-interpretation as a natural process -- 2.4 Sense-interpretation as a theoretical process -- 2.5 Atomic Text -- 2.6 Linguistic features of performative, world-constitutive and descriptive propositions -- 2.6 Linguistic features of performative, world-constitutive and descriptive propositions -- 2.7 Classification of world-constitutive verbs in relation to verb tenses in descriptive propositions -- 2.7 Classification of world-constitutive verbs in relation to verb tenses in descriptive propositions -- 2.8 World-constitutive vs. descriptive use of world-constitutive verbs -- 2.9 The asymmetry of the world-constitutive and performative verbs -- 2.10 The theoretical definition of text -- 2.11 How we use Petőfi's Atomic Text in our research -- 2.12 Evidentiality -- 2.13 Epistemicity -- 2.14 How are certainty and uncertainty communicated? -- 2.15 Whose certainty/uncertainty? -- 2.16 Truth/falsehood -- 2.17 Correlate-interpretation as a natural process
Chapter 3. Knowing, Unknowing, Believing positions: The KUB model -- 3.1 Our study 2008 -- 3.2 Evidential and epistemic worlds or positions -- 3.3 Markers of the Knowing/Certain position -- 3.4 Markers of the Unknowing position -- 3.5 Markers of the Believing/Uncertain position -- 3.6 Quantitative analysis -- Chapter 4. Are certainty and uncertainty psychological realities? -- 4.1 Are certain and uncertain epistemic contraries? -- 4.2 Study 1 -- 4.3 Study 2 -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 5. "What should I do?": Epistemic positions and advice giving activity in troubles talk sequencesEpistemic positions and advice giving activity in troubles talk sequences -- 5.1 Advice as a particular directive speech act and as a social activity -- 5.2 Advice giving in troubles talk -- 5.3 KUB model applied to advice giving activity in troubles talk -- 5.4 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Chapter 6. Confidence attitudes and epistemic management in the clairvoyant-journalist interviews: Extrasensory perception and epistemic authority -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Extrasensory perception as a mode of knowing -- 6.3 Epistemic status and epistemic stance -- 6.4 Aims and method -- 6.5 The first interview -- 6.6 The second interview -- 6.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 7. "Who is the killer?": Epistemic positions in Italian crime case talk-shows -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Theoretical notes -- 7.3 Aims and method -- 7.4 The first proof: The phone records -- 7.5 The second proof: The camera's images -- 7.6 The third proof: The car -- 7.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Three epistemic models: A comparison -- 8.1 Akio Kamio: The theory of territories of information -- 8.2 John Heritage: The epistemic management of conversational interactions -- Chapter 9. KUB, mind, brain, speech acts: Future perspectives -- 9.1 Psychological and linguistic levels of reality
9.2 KUB as a linguistic model -- 9.3 Between language and mind -- 9.4 From language to mind (and brain) -- 9.5 Back to language: KUB and speech acts -- References -- Transcription notes -- Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dialogue analysis.
Conversation analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Conversation analysis
Dialogue analysis
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Zuczkowski, Andrzej, editor
Bongelli, Ramona, editor
Riccioni, Ilaria, editor
LC no. 2017030997
ISBN 9789027265661
9027265666