| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) |
| Contents |
The phenomenon of conversational pressure -- Part I: The act of address. Your attention please! -- Part II: The speech act: performance and uptake. Conversational pressures, interpersonal and epistemic -- The speaker's expectation of trust: some false starts -- How to treat a testifier -- Anti-reductionism and expected trust -- Does friendship exert pressure on belief? -- Part III: Uptake of uptake. Conversational silence -- Silence misinterpreted: the double-harm of silencing -- The social epistemology of public uptake -- The epistemic costs of politeness -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others. These forms of conversational pressure are many and far from uniform, so much so that it is unclear whether they constitute a single cohesive class. In this book Sanford C. Goldberg explores the source, nature, and scope of the normative expectations we have of one another as we engage in conversation that are generated by the performance of speech acts themselves. In doing so he examines two fundamental types of expectation -- epistemic and interpersonal. It is through normative expectations of these types that we aim to hold one another to standards of proper conversational conduct. This line of argument is pursued in connection with such topics as the normative significance of acts of address, the epistemic costs of politeness, the bearing of epistemic injustice on the epistemology of testimony, the normative pressure friendship exerts on belief, the nature of epistemic trust, the significance of conversational silence, and the various evils of silencing. By approaching these matters in terms of the normative expectations to which conversational participants are entitled, Goldberg aims to offer a unified account of the various pressures that are exerted in the course of a speech exchange"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 9, 2020) |
| Subject |
Conversation analysis.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Conversation analysis.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192598394 |
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0192598392 |
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9780191889707 |
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0191889709 |
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9780192598387 |
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0192598384 |
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