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The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation This book demonstrates how we monitor others' rights to, and responsibilities for, knowledge in conversation, and their consequences for affiliation. Tanya Stivers (Edited by), Lorenza Mondada (Edited by), Jakob Steensig (Edited by) 9780521194549, Cambridge University Press Hardback, published 2 June 2011 356 pages 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.65 kg Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are fulfilling our rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some state of affairs. This book brings together an international team of leading linguists, sociologists and anthropologists working across a range of European and Asian languages to document some of the ways in which speakers manage the moral domain of knowledge in conversation. The volume demonstrates that if we are to understand how speakers manage issues of agreement, affiliation and alignment - something clearly at the heart of human sociality - we must understand the social norms surrounding epistemic access, primacy and responsibilities. Introduction 1. Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada and Jakob Steensig Part I. Affiliational Consequences of Managing Epistemic Asymmetries: 2. The management of knowledge discrepancies and of epistemic changes in institutional interactions Lorenza Mondada 3. Giving support to the claim of epistemic primacy: yo-marked assessments in Japanese Kaoru Hayano 4. Morality and question design: 'of course' as contesting a presupposition of askability Tanya Stivers 5. Addressing epistemic incongruence in question-answer sequences through the use of epistemic adverbs Trine Heinemann, Anna Lindström and Jakob Steensig 6. The epistemics of make-believe Jack Sidnell Part II. Epistemic Resources for Managing Affiliation and Alignment: 7. Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments in interaction John Heritage 8. The terms of not knowing and social affiliation Leelo Keevallik 9. Proposing shared knowledge as a means of pursuing agreement Birte Asmuß 10. Ways of agreeing with negative stance taking Auli Hakulinen and Marja-Leena Sorjonen 11. Epistemics and embodiment in the interactions of very young children Mardi Kidwell Part III. Toward a Theory: 12. Sources of asymmetry in human interaction: enchrony, status, knowledge and agency N. J. Enfield. Subject Areas: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [ JHMC ], Sociolinguistics [ CFB ], Philosophy of language [ CFA ]