Talk and practical epistemology : the social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community / / Jack Sidnell

• Autore: Sidnell Jack
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.3/46
• Soggetto topico: Conversation analysis; Knowledge, Theory of
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Talk and Practical Epistemology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- What is a transcript? -- Interactive aspects of the talk and speech delivery -- Malinowski's complaint -- Introduction -- Talk-in-interaction -- Practical epistemology -- Knowledge and talk-in-interaction -- Introduction -- Linguistic anthropology -- Evidentiality and epistemic stance -- Footing and reported speech -- Conclusion -- The "anthropology of knowledge'' -- Knowledge of culture -- Knowledge and power -- Knowledge in practice -- Knowledge in interaction -- Story telling, witnessing, recipient design -- Knowledge in the organization of turns and sequences -- Practical epistemology in calls to the police -- Epistemic issues implicated in the production of question-answer and assesment sequences -- Practical epistemology -- Plan of the book -- The village -- Introduction -- The patrilocal group and the organization of labour -- Post-marital residence and village exogamy -- The road -- House and yard -- The rumshop -- The social organization of knowledge in the village -- The vernacular -- The verb phrase -- Participant deictics -- The noun phrase -- Answering questions -- The concept of a language game -- Learning to talk is learning to act'': The genealogical account of language games -- The interactional organization of questions and answers -- Earliest sequences: The proto-language game -- Elaborations of the language-game -- Whereabouts: News, location and accountability in a small community -- Elaboration: Doubt and skepticism -- Conclusion: Proto-games and universal customs -- Uncertainty and expertise in advice -- Introduction -- Locating and displaying uncertainty in advice-initiation -- Certainty and advice closure -- Blocking advice: Finding an alternate warrant. ; The interactional locus of exteriority and constraint -- Ritual procedure, advise and the finite clause -- Conclusions -- Cultivated ignorance -- Introduction -- A visit to Shanka's house -- Formulating persons -- The conversation analytic approach to person reference: Identification and recognition -- Questions and answers -- Evidence and practical epistemology -- Conclusions -- Reminiscing local history -- Introduction -- Constructing and managing male-exclusivity in the rumshop -- Reminiscing as a situated activity -- Establishing activity-relevant alignments -- Maintaining and displaying alignments across the telling -- Concluding, evaluating and following up the story -- Conclusions -- Policing knowledge -- Introduction -- Locating the story-teller in past events -- Knowledge and the turn-at-talk: The case of anticipatory completion -- Challenging claims to knowledge -- Being there: Age and entitlement to know -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Post-marital residence and the epistemics of telling local history -- Bhatgaon: A point of ethnographic comparison -- The priority of practice -- Of "practices'' and "theories'' -- Glossing and therapeutic analysis -- Knowledge, belief and anthropological confusion -- Conversation analysis -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- The Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, the book describes both the social distribution of knowledge and the villagers' methods for distinguishing between fact and fancy, knowledge and belief through close analyses of particular encounters. The various chapters consider uncertainty and expertise in advice-giving, the cultivation of ignorance in an attempt to avoid scandal, and the organization of peer groups through the display of knowledge in the activity of reminiscing local history. An orienting chapter on questions and an appendix provide an introduction to conversation analysis. The book makes a contribution to linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis and cross-cultural pragmatics. The conclusion discusses the implications of the analysis for current understanding of practice, knowledge and social organization in anthropology and neighboring disciplines.
• Titolo autorizzato: Talk and practical epistemology
• ISBN: 1-282-15638-1; 9786612156380; 90-272-9409-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817566603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., 142.