Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5772837
AutoresWilliam (0000-0003-4299-1941, autor de correspondencia), Val Williams (0000-0002-8608-7842, University of Bristol, autor de correspondencia), Joseph Webb (0000-0003-1818-0276, University of Bristol), Joe Webb (University of Bristol), Dowling (0000-0002-1402-3495, University of Bristol), Sandra Dowling, Marina R Y Gall (0000-0003-1647-3382, University of Bristol), Marina Gall (University of Bristol)
Año2018
Volumen21
Número2
Páginas199-215
Fecha de publicación2018-10-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461445618802657
OpenAlexW2896916622
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas42

This article aims to explore how epistemic status is negotiated during talk about the life memories of one speaker. Direct questions which foreground 'remembering' can lead to troubled sequences of talk. However, interlocutors sometimes frame their first parts as 'co-rememberings', and the sequential positioning of these can be crucial to the outcome of the talk. We draw on almost 10 hours of video data from dementia settings, where memory is a talked-about matter. Our focus is on 30 sequences which are initiated with a question or other first part taking a K-stance, selecting one person as next speaker, and topically relating to the recipient's past life. We show how type 2 knowables can be used alongside markers of tentativeness, to jointly construct the recipient's epistemic primacy

Conversation analysis · Discursive psychology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Speech and dialogue systems