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Epistemic Stance in Dialogue

Author : Andrzej Zuczkowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265666
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Epistemic Stance in Dialogue by : Andrzej Zuczkowski

Download or read book Epistemic Stance in Dialogue written by Andrzej Zuczkowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. According to the results of our studies of different types of corpora, these positions can be reduced to three basic ones: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB). In the first part of the book, we present the KUB model and its psychological and linguistic backgrounds. In the second part, we provide an exemplary application of the model, by presenting the qualitative and quantitative analysis of dialogues belonging to different genres and contexts. The volume is addressed to scholars concerned with the topical issues from a theoretical and analytical perspective.

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation

Author : Elise Kärkkäinen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027253579
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Epistemic Stance in English Conversation by : Elise Kärkkäinen

Download or read book Epistemic Stance in English Conversation written by Elise Kärkkäinen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers' utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation

Author : Elise Kärkkäinen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588114440
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Epistemic Stance in English Conversation by : Elise Kärkkäinen

Download or read book Epistemic Stance in English Conversation written by Elise Kärkkäinen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of "I think," the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of "I think." The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of "I think" as a discourse marker.

Scientific Ontology

Author : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190651458
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Ontology written by Anjan Chakravartty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investigations are relevant to philosophy. This book argues that there is no uniquely rational way to determine which domains of ontology are appropriate for belief, making room for choice in a transformative account of scientific ontology.

Stancetaking in Discourse

Author : Robert Englebretson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027254085
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Stancetaking in Discourse by : Robert Englebretson

Download or read book Stancetaking in Discourse written by Robert Englebretson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explore the situated, pragmatic, and interactional character of stancetaking, and present new models and conceptions of stance to spark future research. Central to the volume is the claim that stancetaking encompasses five general principles: it involves physical, attitudinal and/or moral positioning; it is a public action; it is inherently dialogic, interactional, and sequential; it indexes broader sociocultural contexts; and it is consequential to the interactants. Each paper explores one or more of these dimensions of stance from perspectives including interactional linguistics and conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, language description, discourse analysis, and sociocultural linguistics. Research languages include conversational American English, colloquial Indonesian, and Finnish. The understanding of stance that emerges is heterogeneous and variegated, and always intertwined with the pragmatic and social aspects of human conduct.

Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts

Author : Andrzej Zuczkowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269211
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts by : Andrzej Zuczkowski

Download or read book Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts written by Andrzej Zuczkowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, epistemicity, evidentiality, hedging, mitigation and speech acts. In the second part, results from empirical studies in medical and supportive contexts are presented, all of which are based on a conversational analysis approach. These papers report on professional dialogues including advice giving in gynecological consultations, breaking diagnostic bad news to patients, emergency calls, addiction therapeutic community meetings and bureaucratic-institutional interactions. The final part concerns the qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpora, addressing scientific writing (both research and popular articles) and academic communication in English, German, Spanish and Romanian. The collection is addressed to scholars concerned with the topical issues from a theoretical and analytical perspective and to health professionals interested in the practical implications of communicating certainty or uncertainty.

The Dialogical Mind

Author : Ivana Marková
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002559
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Dialogical Mind written by Ivana Marková and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.

Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English

Author : Andrzej Zuczkowski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527567346
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English by : Andrzej Zuczkowski

Download or read book Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English written by Andrzej Zuczkowski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or unknown. It presents a qualitative analysis of extracts from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 to support the idea that questions come from two distinct epistemic positions: the Unknowing and the Uncertain; this latter ranges along two poles: Not Knowing Whether and Believing. In the epistemic continuum, Unknowing questions express a lack of knowledge and range from open to closed and dual wh-questions. On the other hand, Uncertain questions express a lack of certainty and range from maximum uncertainty (Not Knowing Whether-questions advancing a doubt) to minimum uncertainty (Believing-questions advancing a supposition). Both Unknowing and Uncertain questions can be directed either at the answerer’s Knowing or Believing position, depending on their aim. The volume will appeal to scholars concerned with the topic of question design and epistemic stance from a theoretical and analytical perspective, as well as those interested in applying these findings in their teaching practice.

Talk and Practical Epistemology

Author : Jack Sidnell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253859
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (538 download)

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Book Synopsis Talk and Practical Epistemology by : Jack Sidnell

Download or read book Talk and Practical Epistemology written by Jack Sidnell and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, the book describes both the social distribution of knowledge and the villagers' methods for distinguishing between fact and fancy, knowledge and belief through close analyses of particular encounters. The various chapters consider uncertainty and expertise in advice-giving, the cultivation of ignorance in an attempt to avoid scandal, and the organization of peer groups through the display of knowledge in the activity of reminiscing local history. An orienting chapter on questions and an appendix provide an introduction to conversation analysis. The book makes a contribution to linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis and cross-cultural pragmatics. The conclusion discusses the implications of the analysis for current understanding of practice, knowledge and social organization in anthropology and neighboring disciplines.

Tag Questions in Conversation

Author : Ditte Kimps
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264333
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Tag Questions in Conversation written by Ditte Kimps and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English tag questions. Compared to existing descriptions, the proposed typology is novel in three ways. Firstly, whereas almost all existing typologies are single-layered classifications, the functions of tag questions are categorized into two parallel dimensions of interpersonal meaning: the speech function and the stance layer. Secondly, semantic generalizations are proposed for clusters of grammatical, intonational and conversational properties. Thirdly, the bottom-up description is based on a sizeable amount of authentic, spontaneous conversations, which are analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively.

The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric

Author : Marta Spranzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286841
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric by : Marta Spranzi

Download or read book The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric written by Marta Spranzi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's Topics, its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus links it to dialogue and disputation, while Cicero develops a mildly skeptical version of dialectic, identifies it with reasoning in utramque partem and connects it closely to rhetoric. These two interpretations constitute the backbone of the living tradition of dialectic and are variously developed in the Renaissance against the Medieval background. The book scrutinizes three separate contexts in which these developments occur: Rudolph Agricola's attempt to develop a new dialectic in close connection with rhetoric, Agostino Nifo's thoroughly Aristotelian approach and its use of the newly translated commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes, and Carlo Sigonio's literary theory of the dialogue form, which is centered around Aristotle's Topics. Today, Aristotelian dialectic enjoys a new life within argumentation theory: the final chapter of the book briefly revisits these contemporary developments and draws some general epistemological conclusions linking the tradition of dialectic to a fallibilist view of knowledge.

How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis

Author : Laura Louise Aull
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294538
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis written by Laura Louise Aull and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad generalizations about "people today" are a familiar feature of first-year student writing. How Students Write brings a fresh perspective to this perennial observation, using corpus linguistics techniques. This study analyzes sentence-level patterns in student writing to develop an understanding of how students present evidence, draw connections between ideas, relate to their readers, and, ultimately, learn to construct knowledge in their writing. Drawing on both first-year and upper-level student writing, the book examines the discourse of students at different points in their education. It also distinguishes between argumentative and analytic essays to explore the way school genres and assignments shape students' choices. In focusing on sentence-level features such as hedges ("perhaps") and boosters ("definitely"), this study shows how such rhetorical choices work together to open or close opportunities for thoughtful exchanges of ideas. Attention to these features can help instructors foster civil discourse, design effective assignments, and expose and question norms of higher education.

Conversation Analysis

Author : Ian Hutchby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546065
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Conversation Analysis written by Ian Hutchby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes? Conversation Analysis has developed over the past forty years as a key method for studying social interaction and language use. Its unique perspective and systematic methods make it attractive to an interdisciplinary audience. In this second edition of their highly acclaimed introduction, Ian Hutchby and Robin Wooffitt offer a wide-ranging and accessible overview of key issues in the field. The second edition has been substantially revised to incorporate recent developments, including an entirely new final chapter exploring the contribution of Conversation Analysis to key issues in social science. The book provides a grounding in the theory and methods of Conversation Analysis, and demonstrates its procedures by analyzing a variety of concrete examples. Written in a lively and engaging style, Conversation Analysis has become indispensable reading for students and researchers in sociology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, social psychology, communication studies and anthropology.

Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited

Author : Beatriz Bossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715473
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited written by Beatriz Bossi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book meets the need to revise the standard interpretations of an apparently aporetic dialogue, full of eloquent silences and tricky suggestions, as it explores, among many other topics, the dramatis personae, including Plato's self-references behind the scene and the role of Socrates on stage, the question of method and refutation and the way dialectics plays a part in the dialogue. More especifically, it contains a set of papers devoted to perception and Plato's criticism of Heraclitus and Protagoras. A section deals with the problem of the relation between knowledge and thinking, including the the aviary model and the possibility of error. It also emphasizes some positive contributions to the classical Platonic doctrines and his philosophy of education. The reception of the dialogue in antiquity and the medieval age closes the analysis. Representing different hermeneutical traditions, prestigious scholars engage with these issues in divergent ways, as they shed new light on a complex controversial work.

Positioning and Stance in Political Discourse: The Individual, the Party, and the Party Line

Author : Lawrence N. Berlin
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273954X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Positioning and Stance in Political Discourse: The Individual, the Party, and the Party Line written by Lawrence N. Berlin and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the political sphere, a political actor is often judged by what he or she says, with their verbal performance often perceived as representative of the individual. Hearers accept that, as individuals, they possess a lifetime of experiences and actions which inform, but may also undermine, their aspirations in gaining political capital. Additionally, as representatives of a political party and its ideology, these actors do not exist in isolation; they are members and, at times, potential candidates of a particular party with its own agenda which may, in turn, cause them to modify their personal speech to align with espoused policies of the party. The various contributions contained in this volume examine the discourse of political actors through the lenses of positionality and stance. Throughout its chapters, clearly defined theoretical perspectives and specified social practices are employed, enabling the authors to elucidate how political actors can situate themselves, their party, and their opponents toward their ostensive public. This book successfully demonstrates how espoused perspectives relate to, or reflect on, the nature of the individual political actor and their truth, the party they represent and its ideology, and the pandering to popular public opinion to gain support and co-operation. This book will hold particular appeal for postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars of discourse studies, pragmatics, political science, as well as other areas in humanities and the social sciences.

Epistemic Duties

Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638620
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Duties written by Kevin McCain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely related questions from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It features a wide variety of positions, ranging from arguments for and against the existence of purely epistemic requirements, reductions of epistemic requirements to moral or prudential requirements, the biological foundations of epistemic requirements, extensions of the scope of epistemic requirements to include such things as open-mindedness, eradication of implicit bias and interpersonal duties to object, to new applications such as epistemic requirements pertaining to storytelling, testimony, and fundamentalist beliefs. Anyone interested in the nature of responsibility, belief, or epistemic normativity will find a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas in this cutting-edge anthology. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Author : Michael Haugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108957390
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics written by Michael Haugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team of leading editors and contributors, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of the key concepts, topics, settings and methodologies involved in sociopragmatic research. The chapters are organised in a systematic fashion, and span a wide range of theoretical research on how language communicates multiple meanings in context, how it influences our daily interactions and relationships with others, and how it helps construct our social worlds. Providing insight into a fascinating array of phenomena and novel research directions, the Handbook is not only relevant to experts of pragmatics but to any reader with an interest in language and its use in different contexts, including researchers in sociology, anthropology and communication, and students of applied linguistics and related areas, as well as professional practitioners in communication research.