Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Commentary on the criticism of the ‘Epistemic Program’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12657137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jakob Steensig (0000-0003-4546-8910, Aarhus University, corresponding author), T Heinemann (0000-0003-2695-0314, University of Helsinki) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 597-609 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445616659173 |
| OpenAlex | W2503840235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 41 |
It is timely and important that new developments in conversation analysis (CA) become the subject of principled debate. John Heritage’s recent papers on the role of epistemics constitute one such development, and by re-analysing excerpts from this work, the articles in this Special Issue reveal some significant problems with a programmatic approach to epistemics. This commentary agrees with the critics that there are dangers in an overemphasis on epistemics and in using isolated utterances and proposing abstract scales and terms. But the commentary also warns against totally rejecting epistemics as a domain of inquiry in CA and points to places where the critics exaggerate their criticisms in a way that makes them unnecessarily hostile
Conversation · Conversation analysis · Criticism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Conversational phonetics
The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
Affectivity in Interaction
Conversation analysis and socially shared cognition.
Conversation Analysis as Social Theory
Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments A Method of Modifying Agreement/Disagreement
Studies in ethnomethodology
Sequence Organization in Interaction
The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation
Wh-questions used as challenges
Introduction
Declaratives, Questioning, Defeasibility
Beyond and Behind the Words
On the Preference for Remembering
Epistemics in Action
Conversation Analysis at Century's End
What Drives Sequences
Coding Social Interaction
Dealing with Ambiguities in Informings
Recruitment
Surprise As an Interactional Achievement
Displaying Now-Understanding
Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 1
The Epistemic Engine
Mobilizing Response
Well-prefaced turns in English conversation
Categorization and the moral order
Action formation and its epistemic (and other) backgrounds
Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk
Epistemic status and the recognizability of social actions
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 2
Reverting to a hidden interactional order
Questions of accountability
A tutorial on membership categorization
Turn-initial position and some of its occupants
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The epistemics of social relations
Telling My Side
Confirming Allusions
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |