Reverting to a hidden interactional order
Epistemics, informationism, and conversation analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5965201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lynch (0000-0002-8635-6547, Cornell University, corresponding author), Michael S Lynch (0000-0002-1016-5090, Cornell University), Jean Wong (0000-0001-6082-9345, College of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 526-549 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445616658199 |
| OpenAlex | W2477524906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 54 |
This article critically examines the relations between epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) and linguistic and cognitivist conceptions of communicative interaction that emphasize information and information transfer. The epistemic program (EP) adheres to the focus on recorded instances of talk-in-interaction that is characteristic of CA, explicitly identifies its theoretical origins with ethnomethodology, and points to implications of its research for the social distribution of knowledge. However, despite such affiliations with CA and ethnomethodology, the EP is cognitivist in the way it emphasizes information exchange as an underlying, extrasituational ‘driver’ in social interaction. To document how the EP draws upon cognitivist conceptions of information and knowledge, we review examples from the corpus of transcripts analyzed in key publications on epistemics. Our re-analysis casts doubt upon the way EP analysis invokes an underlying order that supposedly drives the evident sequential organization of those transcripts
Cognitive science · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
Inferential Practices in Social Interaction
The International Conference on Conversation Analysis
Epistemics Strikes Back
A discursive psychology study of epistemic primacy in an LGBTQ+ youth group’s textual educational materials
Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Commentary on the criticism of the ‘Epistemic Program’
From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 1
Managing epistemic imbalances in peer interaction during mathematics lessons
The ubiquity of epistemics
Epistemic status and the recognizability of social actions
Mandarin ethnomethodology or mutual interchange
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 2
Epistemics - The Rebuttal Special Issue
B-event statements as vehicles for two interactional practices in police interactions with suspects/witnesses
Epistemics in social interaction
Actions in practice
Which epistemics? Whose conversation analysis
In support of conversation analysis’ radical agenda
Are you asking me or are you telling me
Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories
Cognitive sociology
Interrogative structures of American English
Discourse and Knowledge
Using Language
Talk in Action
Territory of Information
Conversation analysis and socially shared cognition.
Benefactors and beneficiaries
Territories of knowledge, territories of experience
Conversation Analysis as Social Theory
Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments
Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments A Method of Modifying Agreement/Disagreement
Studies in ethnomethodology
Erving Goffman
Theoretical sociology
Sequence Organization in Interaction
Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy
The Territories of the Self
Comparative Sociology, Laic and Analytic
On integrity in inquiry… of the investigated, not the investigator
Declaratives, Questioning, Defeasibility
Beyond and Behind the Words
Who Knew
Epistemics in Action
What Drives Sequences
Commentary on Stivers and Rossano
Information’
I.1 The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar
The Terms of Agreement
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 1
The Epistemic Engine
Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III
Mobilizing Response
Action formation and its epistemic (and other) backgrounds
Epistemic status and the recognizability of social actions
The story of ‘Oh’, Part 2
The Interaction Order
Opening up Closings
Presequences and indirection
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The epistemics of social relations
Therapeutic Discourse
On an Actual Virtual Servo-Mechanism for Guessing Bad News
Sequencing in Conversational Openings1
Telling My Side
Confirming Allusions
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |