Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5772837
AutoresWilliam (0000-0003-4299-1941, autor correspondente), Val Williams (0000-0002-8608-7842, University of Bristol, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2018
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas199-215
Data de publicação2018-10-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461445618802657
OpenAlexW2896916622
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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