G B Bolden
Biographic Data
| ID | 13570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G B Bolden |
| GIVEN NAMES | G B |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolden |
| SIGNATURE | BOLDEN G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7898-1246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 593 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Correcting Others in Other-Initiated Other-Repair Sequences
Repair organization is a system of practices for dealing with problems of hearing, speaking, and understanding and a central mechanism for maintaining intersubjectivity in conversation. Among the different types of repair, other-initiated other-repair—that is, repair initiated and resolved by a recipient of a trouble source—is the least understood. In other-initiated other-repair sequences, an interactant self-selects to enact "other-correction" …
The distinctive uses of right in British and American English interaction
Transcribing for Social Research
Subversive Completions: Turn-Taking Resources for Commandeering the Recipient’s Action in Progress
This article explores the practice of “subversive completions,” whereby one speaker produces a grammatically fitted completion of another speaker’s unfolding turn so as to subvert the action of the unfolding turn and the ongoing sequence. We show that subversive completions may derail or exaggerate the action in progress, typically for comedic or teasing effect. We also introduce three related turn-taking practices that can be used to accomplish …
How clients solicit medication changes in psychiatry
In psychiatry, practitioners are encouraged to adopt a patient-centred approach that emphasises shared decision-making. In this article, we investigate how clients with severe mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia) advocate for their treatment preferences in psychiatric consultations. The study uses Conversation Analysis to examine audio-recorded medication check appointments in a comprehensive treatment programme known as assertive community trea…
Speaking ‘out of turn: Epistemics in action in other-initiated repair
This article provides an empirical demonstration of the saliency of epistemics to two core conversational organizations, turn-taking and repair. To that end, I examine cases in which a participant of a multiparty conversation intervenes into a repair sequence to respond to a repair initiation addressed to the trouble-source speaker, that is, in violation of the turn-taking rules, without having an epistemically grounded entitlement to do so. I sh…
Transcribing for Social Research
At the Intersection of Epistemics and Action: Responding with I Know
We examine I know as a responding action, showing that it claims to accept the grounds of the initiating action but either resists that action as unnecessary or endorses it, depending on the epistemic environment created by the initiating action. First, in responding to actions that presume an unknowing addressee (e.g., correcting, advising), speakers deploy I know to resist the action as unnecessary while accepting its grounds. Second, in respon…
The Organization of the Treatment Recommendation Phase in Routine Psychiatric Visits
The article examines the organization of the treatment recommendation phase in psychiatric consultations for individuals with chronic and serious psychiatric conditions. Recommending treatment in chronic psychiatric care is a complex course of action that involves building a case for a treatment recommendation, eliciting an acceptance of the proposal, checking medical records, and detailing an implementation plan. This organization allows the par…
The use of conversational co-remembering to corroborate contentious claims
Memory is a central epistemic resource, yet the interactional organization of shared remembering is largely unexplored. Drawing on a large corpus of video- and audio-recorded interactions in English and Russian, we examine a collection of over 50 cases in which participants are engaged in the activity of co-remembering. We show that memory formulations are commonly used as an evidential method to legitimize or support a claim or point of view in …
Transcribing as Research: “Manual” Transcription and Conversation Analysis
Moore (2015/this issue) discusses possibilities afforded by state-of-the-art automated transcription technologies for conversation analytic (CA) research. Since these technologies may become attractive to conversation analysts, their impact should be carefully considered. In this commentary, I offer some words of caution about adopting automated transcription techniques. Three issues are raised: first, the role of transcribing in research and tra…
A simple da: Affirming responses to polar questions in Russian conversation
Justifying medication decisions in mental health care: Psychiatrists' accounts for treatment recommendations
Negotiating Understanding in “Intercultural Moments” in Immigrant Family Interactions
This article aims to advance an interactionally sensitive, emic view of intercultural communication by exploring the organization of “intercultural moments” in conversation—moments during which cultural and linguistic differences between people become exposed. Field video recordings of ordinary face-to-face interactions in Russian–American immigrant families are analyzed using the methodology of conversation analysis. The article focuses on seque…
Unpacking “Self”: Repair and Epistemics in Conversation
Goffman’s work on footing has paved the way to specifying the analytic concepts of speaker and hearer in social interaction. This article empirically examines participants’ moment-by-moment negotiated understandings of speakerhood in the context of conversational repair—sequences of talk dedicated to resolving problems of hearing, speaking, or understanding. I demonstrate that participation in repair sequences reflects interactants’ orientations …
Reference Recalibration Repairs: Adjusting the Precision of Formulations for the Task at Hand
This report examines what is involved when a speaker overtly selects one formulation over another by employing a repair operation that reformulates a reference in a way that adjusts or recalibrates it, rather than abandons the original referent altogether. Focusing primarily on references to persons, we show that, beyond the narrowing of a reference—increasing its precision—that results in an improved fit between a person reference and other comp…
Grammatical Flexibility as a Resource in Explicating Referents
This article examines one aspect of interplay between grammar and social interaction: how speak-ers of different languages explicate referents that had been referred to tacitly, i.e., without using an explicit referential expression. The focus is on situations when speakers go on to explicate the referent in the transition space, after bringing the turn constructional unit to a possible completion. Depending on the grammatical affordances of the …
Pursuing a Response by Repairing an Indexical Reference
Prior conversation analytic research has demonstrated that when, following a sequence-initiating action, a response is relevantly missing (or is forthcoming but is apparently inadequate), speakers may use a range of practices for pursuing a response (or a more adequate response). These practices—such as response prompts, preference reversals, or turn extensions—treat the missing (or inadequate) response as indicative of some problem, and they may…
Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair
This article examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent linguistic and cultural expertise. Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine mundane video-recorded conversations in Russian-American immigrant families, I describe a previously unanaly…
Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation
This article investigates the action of directly soliciting accounts with why-interrogatives (e.g., Why did you do that?). Using conversation analysis, this article argues that why-interrogatives are Janus-faced. On one hand, as types of questions, they index an epistemic gap between questioners and answerers and thus the possibility that answerers are able to provide accounts that questioners did not previously know about. On the other hand, why…
On the Organization of Repair in Multiperson Conversation: The Case of “Other”-Selection in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences
This article examines a previously undocumented way in which the presence of more than two interlocutors matters for the organization of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977 Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G. and Sacks, H. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language, 53: 361–382. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]): when the repair initiation is addressed to—and thereby selec…
Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk
This article provides a conversation analytic description of a previously unstudied conversational action: ‘articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of other people’s talk. Contributing to the extant research on formulations and on interactional functions of discourse markers, the article shows that and-prefaced formulations accomplish a distinct conversational action that has the following features: these formulations are assertion…
Preference organization of sequence-initiating actions: The case of explicit account solicitations
This article extends prior conversation analytic research on the preference organization of sequence-initiating actions. Across two languages (English and Russian), this article examines one such action: explicitly soliciting an account for human conduct (predominantly with why-type interrogatives). Prior work demonstrates that this action conveys a challenging stance towards the warrantability of the accountable event/conduct (Bolden and Robinso…
Beyond Answering: Repeat-Prefaced Responses in Conversation
The article presents a conversation analytic investigation of one technique for responding to questions in naturally occurring social interactions: repeating the question verbatim in part or as a whole before providing a required response. A close examination of production features of repeat prefacing in Russian demonstrates that it is used by conversationalists to resist agendas and presuppositions generated by questions and other sequence initi…
Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker 'so' in English conversation
Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker 'so' in English conversation
Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers "So" and "Oh" and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction
Journal Article Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers "So" and "Oh" and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction Get access Galina B. Bolden Galina B. Bolden 1Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 661-688, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00314.x …
Beyond Answering: Repeat-Prefaced Responses in Conversation
The article presents a conversation analytic investigation of one technique for responding to questions in naturally occurring social interactions: repeating the question verbatim in part or as a whole before providing a required response. A close examination of production features of repeat prefacing in Russian demonstrates that it is used by conversationalists to resist agendas and presuppositions generated by questions and other sequence initi…
Toward Understanding Practices of Medical Interpreting: Interpreters' Involvement in History Taking
This article examines the role of medical interpreters in structuring interaction between physicians and their patients. Through a detailed analysis of interpreters' involvement in the history-taking part of medical consultations, it is demonstrated that their participation in this activity is organized by their understanding of its goals rather than by the task of translation alone. Specifically, the different ways in which interpreters particip…
Preference organization of sequence-initiating actions: The case of explicit account solicitations
This article extends prior conversation analytic research on the preference organization of sequence-initiating actions. Across two languages (English and Russian), this article examines one such action: explicitly soliciting an account for human conduct (predominantly with why-type interrogatives). Prior work demonstrates that this action conveys a challenging stance towards the warrantability of the accountable event/conduct (Bolden and Robinso…
Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair
This article examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent linguistic and cultural expertise. Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine mundane video-recorded conversations in Russian-American immigrant families, I describe a previously unanaly…
Unpacking “Self”: Repair and Epistemics in Conversation
Goffman’s work on footing has paved the way to specifying the analytic concepts of speaker and hearer in social interaction. This article empirically examines participants’ moment-by-moment negotiated understandings of speakerhood in the context of conversational repair—sequences of talk dedicated to resolving problems of hearing, speaking, or understanding. I demonstrate that participation in repair sequences reflects interactants’ orientations …
On the Organization of Repair in Multiperson Conversation: The Case of “Other”-Selection in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences
This article examines a previously undocumented way in which the presence of more than two interlocutors matters for the organization of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977 Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G. and Sacks, H. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language, 53: 361–382. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]): when the repair initiation is addressed to—and thereby selec…
Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk
This article provides a conversation analytic description of a previously unstudied conversational action: ‘articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of other people’s talk. Contributing to the extant research on formulations and on interactional functions of discourse markers, the article shows that and-prefaced formulations accomplish a distinct conversational action that has the following features: these formulations are assertion…
So What's Up?”: Using the Discourse Marker So to Launch Conversational Business
In this article, I use conversation analytic methods to analyze interactional junctures in which transitions to the first conversational topic are accomplished. I examine several ways in which parties in ordinary (and especially telephone) conversations coordinate the launching of first “talkables,” focusing specifically on environments in which such moves are delayed. I observed that many such moves are prefaced with the discourse marker so sugg…
Negotiating Understanding in “Intercultural Moments” in Immigrant Family Interactions
This article aims to advance an interactionally sensitive, emic view of intercultural communication by exploring the organization of “intercultural moments” in conversation—moments during which cultural and linguistic differences between people become exposed. Field video recordings of ordinary face-to-face interactions in Russian–American immigrant families are analyzed using the methodology of conversation analysis. The article focuses on seque…
The quote and beyond: Defining boundaries of reported speech in conversational Russian
Pursuing a Response by Repairing an Indexical Reference
Prior conversation analytic research has demonstrated that when, following a sequence-initiating action, a response is relevantly missing (or is forthcoming but is apparently inadequate), speakers may use a range of practices for pursuing a response (or a more adequate response). These practices—such as response prompts, preference reversals, or turn extensions—treat the missing (or inadequate) response as indicative of some problem, and they may…
At the Intersection of Epistemics and Action: Responding with I Know
We examine I know as a responding action, showing that it claims to accept the grounds of the initiating action but either resists that action as unnecessary or endorses it, depending on the epistemic environment created by the initiating action. First, in responding to actions that presume an unknowing addressee (e.g., correcting, advising), speakers deploy I know to resist the action as unnecessary while accepting its grounds. Second, in respon…
Reopening Russian Conversations: The Discourse Particle -to and the Negotiation of Interpersonal Accountability in Closings
The article examines how the goals of maintaining and reaffirming interpersonal relationships are accomplished through the details of talk during closing sections of social encounters. On the basis of Russian language telephone conversations between close familiars, the article explicates ways in which interactions may be reopened and, more specifically, the role of the Russian discourse particle –to on utterances that raise new issues in closing…
A simple da: Affirming responses to polar questions in Russian conversation
Reference Recalibration Repairs: Adjusting the Precision of Formulations for the Task at Hand
This report examines what is involved when a speaker overtly selects one formulation over another by employing a repair operation that reformulates a reference in a way that adjusts or recalibrates it, rather than abandons the original referent altogether. Focusing primarily on references to persons, we show that, beyond the narrowing of a reference—increasing its precision—that results in an improved fit between a person reference and other comp…
Speaking ‘out of turn: Epistemics in action in other-initiated repair
This article provides an empirical demonstration of the saliency of epistemics to two core conversational organizations, turn-taking and repair. To that end, I examine cases in which a participant of a multiparty conversation intervenes into a repair sequence to respond to a repair initiation addressed to the trouble-source speaker, that is, in violation of the turn-taking rules, without having an epistemically grounded entitlement to do so. I sh…
Justifying medication decisions in mental health care: Psychiatrists' accounts for treatment recommendations
Subversive Completions: Turn-Taking Resources for Commandeering the Recipient’s Action in Progress
This article explores the practice of “subversive completions,” whereby one speaker produces a grammatically fitted completion of another speaker’s unfolding turn so as to subvert the action of the unfolding turn and the ongoing sequence. We show that subversive completions may derail or exaggerate the action in progress, typically for comedic or teasing effect. We also introduce three related turn-taking practices that can be used to accomplish …
How clients solicit medication changes in psychiatry
In psychiatry, practitioners are encouraged to adopt a patient-centred approach that emphasises shared decision-making. In this article, we investigate how clients with severe mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia) advocate for their treatment preferences in psychiatric consultations. The study uses Conversation Analysis to examine audio-recorded medication check appointments in a comprehensive treatment programme known as assertive community trea…
The use of conversational co-remembering to corroborate contentious claims
Memory is a central epistemic resource, yet the interactional organization of shared remembering is largely unexplored. Drawing on a large corpus of video- and audio-recorded interactions in English and Russian, we examine a collection of over 50 cases in which participants are engaged in the activity of co-remembering. We show that memory formulations are commonly used as an evidential method to legitimize or support a claim or point of view in …
Transcribing as Research: “Manual” Transcription and Conversation Analysis
Moore (2015/this issue) discusses possibilities afforded by state-of-the-art automated transcription technologies for conversation analytic (CA) research. Since these technologies may become attractive to conversation analysts, their impact should be carefully considered. In this commentary, I offer some words of caution about adopting automated transcription techniques. Three issues are raised: first, the role of transcribing in research and tra…
Correcting Others in Other-Initiated Other-Repair Sequences
Repair organization is a system of practices for dealing with problems of hearing, speaking, and understanding and a central mechanism for maintaining intersubjectivity in conversation. Among the different types of repair, other-initiated other-repair—that is, repair initiated and resolved by a recipient of a trouble source—is the least understood. In other-initiated other-repair sequences, an interactant self-selects to enact "other-correction" …
The Organization of the Treatment Recommendation Phase in Routine Psychiatric Visits
The article examines the organization of the treatment recommendation phase in psychiatric consultations for individuals with chronic and serious psychiatric conditions. Recommending treatment in chronic psychiatric care is a complex course of action that involves building a case for a treatment recommendation, eliciting an acceptance of the proposal, checking medical records, and detailing an implementation plan. This organization allows the par…
Toward Understanding Practices of Medical Interpreting: Interpreters' Involvement in History Taking
This article examines the role of medical interpreters in structuring interaction between physicians and their patients. Through a detailed analysis of interpreters' involvement in the history-taking part of medical consultations, it is demonstrated that their participation in this activity is organized by their understanding of its goals rather than by the task of translation alone. Specifically, the different ways in which interpreters particip…
Multiple modalities in collaborative turn sequences
The article investigates resources used by parties in interaction to successfully complete each others’ utterances. Among the different ways in which recipients can demonstrate their understanding, collaborative completions are the most convincing since they display not only recipients’ understanding of the stance or the import of a turn-in-progress, but the minute analysis of the action itself. The article starts with a discussion of syntactic a…
The quote and beyond: Defining boundaries of reported speech in conversational Russian
Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers "So" and "Oh" and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction
Journal Article Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers "So" and "Oh" and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction Get access Galina B. Bolden Galina B. Bolden 1Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 661-688, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00314.x …
So What's Up?”: Using the Discourse Marker So to Launch Conversational Business
In this article, I use conversation analytic methods to analyze interactional junctures in which transitions to the first conversational topic are accomplished. I examine several ways in which parties in ordinary (and especially telephone) conversations coordinate the launching of first “talkables,” focusing specifically on environments in which such moves are delayed. I observed that many such moves are prefaced with the discourse marker so sugg…
Reopening Russian Conversations: The Discourse Particle -to and the Negotiation of Interpersonal Accountability in Closings
The article examines how the goals of maintaining and reaffirming interpersonal relationships are accomplished through the details of talk during closing sections of social encounters. On the basis of Russian language telephone conversations between close familiars, the article explicates ways in which interactions may be reopened and, more specifically, the role of the Russian discourse particle –to on utterances that raise new issues in closing…
Beyond Answering: Repeat-Prefaced Responses in Conversation
The article presents a conversation analytic investigation of one technique for responding to questions in naturally occurring social interactions: repeating the question verbatim in part or as a whole before providing a required response. A close examination of production features of repeat prefacing in Russian demonstrates that it is used by conversationalists to resist agendas and presuppositions generated by questions and other sequence initi…
Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker 'so' in English conversation
Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk
This article provides a conversation analytic description of a previously unstudied conversational action: ‘articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of other people’s talk. Contributing to the extant research on formulations and on interactional functions of discourse markers, the article shows that and-prefaced formulations accomplish a distinct conversational action that has the following features: these formulations are assertion…
Preference organization of sequence-initiating actions: The case of explicit account solicitations
This article extends prior conversation analytic research on the preference organization of sequence-initiating actions. Across two languages (English and Russian), this article examines one such action: explicitly soliciting an account for human conduct (predominantly with why-type interrogatives). Prior work demonstrates that this action conveys a challenging stance towards the warrantability of the accountable event/conduct (Bolden and Robinso…
Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation
This article investigates the action of directly soliciting accounts with why-interrogatives (e.g., Why did you do that?). Using conversation analysis, this article argues that why-interrogatives are Janus-faced. On one hand, as types of questions, they index an epistemic gap between questioners and answerers and thus the possibility that answerers are able to provide accounts that questioners did not previously know about. On the other hand, why…
On the Organization of Repair in Multiperson Conversation: The Case of “Other”-Selection in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences
This article examines a previously undocumented way in which the presence of more than two interlocutors matters for the organization of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977 Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G. and Sacks, H. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language, 53: 361–382. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]): when the repair initiation is addressed to—and thereby selec…
Reference Recalibration Repairs: Adjusting the Precision of Formulations for the Task at Hand
This report examines what is involved when a speaker overtly selects one formulation over another by employing a repair operation that reformulates a reference in a way that adjusts or recalibrates it, rather than abandons the original referent altogether. Focusing primarily on references to persons, we show that, beyond the narrowing of a reference—increasing its precision—that results in an improved fit between a person reference and other comp…
Grammatical Flexibility as a Resource in Explicating Referents
This article examines one aspect of interplay between grammar and social interaction: how speak-ers of different languages explicate referents that had been referred to tacitly, i.e., without using an explicit referential expression. The focus is on situations when speakers go on to explicate the referent in the transition space, after bringing the turn constructional unit to a possible completion. Depending on the grammatical affordances of the …
Pursuing a Response by Repairing an Indexical Reference
Prior conversation analytic research has demonstrated that when, following a sequence-initiating action, a response is relevantly missing (or is forthcoming but is apparently inadequate), speakers may use a range of practices for pursuing a response (or a more adequate response). These practices—such as response prompts, preference reversals, or turn extensions—treat the missing (or inadequate) response as indicative of some problem, and they may…
Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair
This article examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent linguistic and cultural expertise. Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine mundane video-recorded conversations in Russian-American immigrant families, I describe a previously unanaly…
Unpacking “Self”: Repair and Epistemics in Conversation
Goffman’s work on footing has paved the way to specifying the analytic concepts of speaker and hearer in social interaction. This article empirically examines participants’ moment-by-moment negotiated understandings of speakerhood in the context of conversational repair—sequences of talk dedicated to resolving problems of hearing, speaking, or understanding. I demonstrate that participation in repair sequences reflects interactants’ orientations …
Negotiating Understanding in “Intercultural Moments” in Immigrant Family Interactions
This article aims to advance an interactionally sensitive, emic view of intercultural communication by exploring the organization of “intercultural moments” in conversation—moments during which cultural and linguistic differences between people become exposed. Field video recordings of ordinary face-to-face interactions in Russian–American immigrant families are analyzed using the methodology of conversation analysis. The article focuses on seque…
Transcribing as Research: “Manual” Transcription and Conversation Analysis
Moore (2015/this issue) discusses possibilities afforded by state-of-the-art automated transcription technologies for conversation analytic (CA) research. Since these technologies may become attractive to conversation analysts, their impact should be carefully considered. In this commentary, I offer some words of caution about adopting automated transcription techniques. Three issues are raised: first, the role of transcribing in research and tra…
A simple da: Affirming responses to polar questions in Russian conversation
Justifying medication decisions in mental health care: Psychiatrists' accounts for treatment recommendations
Transcribing for Social Research
At the Intersection of Epistemics and Action: Responding with I Know
We examine I know as a responding action, showing that it claims to accept the grounds of the initiating action but either resists that action as unnecessary or endorses it, depending on the epistemic environment created by the initiating action. First, in responding to actions that presume an unknowing addressee (e.g., correcting, advising), speakers deploy I know to resist the action as unnecessary while accepting its grounds. Second, in respon…
The Organization of the Treatment Recommendation Phase in Routine Psychiatric Visits
The article examines the organization of the treatment recommendation phase in psychiatric consultations for individuals with chronic and serious psychiatric conditions. Recommending treatment in chronic psychiatric care is a complex course of action that involves building a case for a treatment recommendation, eliciting an acceptance of the proposal, checking medical records, and detailing an implementation plan. This organization allows the par…
The use of conversational co-remembering to corroborate contentious claims
Memory is a central epistemic resource, yet the interactional organization of shared remembering is largely unexplored. Drawing on a large corpus of video- and audio-recorded interactions in English and Russian, we examine a collection of over 50 cases in which participants are engaged in the activity of co-remembering. We show that memory formulations are commonly used as an evidential method to legitimize or support a claim or point of view in …
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