The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada and Jakob Steensig; Part I. Affiliational Consequences of Managing Epistemic Asymmetries: 2. The management of knowledge discrepancies and of epistemic changes in institutional interactions Lorenza Mondada; 3. Giving support to the claim of epistemic primacy: yo-marked assessments in Japanese Kaoru Hayano; 4. Morality and question design: 'of course' as contesting a presupposition of askability Tanya Stivers; 5. Addressing epistemic incongruence in question-answer sequences through the use of epistemic adverbs Trine Heinemann, Anna Lindstrom and Jakob Steensig; 6. The epistemics of make-believe Jack Sidnell; Part II. Epistemic Resources for Managing Affiliation and Alignment: 7. Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments in interaction John Heritage; 8. The terms of not knowing and social affiliation Leelo Keevallik; 9. Proposing shared knowledge as a means of pursuing agreement Birte Asmuß; 10. Ways of agreeing with negative stance taking Auli Hakulinen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen; 11. Epistemics and embodiment in the interactions of very young children Mardi Kidwell; Part III. Toward a Theory: 12. Sources of asymmetry in human interaction: enchrony, status, knowledge and agency N. J. Enfield.