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Conversational pressure : normativity in speech exchanges /

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"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, na...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldberg, Sanford, 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Conversation analysis.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Analyse de la conversation.
Actes de parole.
Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY.
Political.
Conversation analysis
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.