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Affiliative and disaffiliative candidate understandings
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posted on 2012-11-06, 09:29 authored by Charles AntakiA listener can offer an interpretation (can give a ‘candidate understanding’) of what a speaker
is currently saying. I distinguish between, on the one hand, proposing a candidate understanding
that solves a manifest problem by offering new, relevant information; and, on the other hand,
proposing a candidate understanding that does not seem to relate to any obvious obscurity in
what the speaker is saying, and only offers material that the speaker clearly knows, or ought
to know. Both kinds are interruptions to the progressivity of the speaker’s project, but they
differ qualitatitively. I argue that the former is affiliative and the latter disaffiliative, insofar as the
latter calls attention to, and therefore invites correction or abandonment of, what the speaker
is doing. I discuss what such a move might serve, and show how making it involves epistemic and
deontological rights.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
ANTAKI, C., 2012. Affiliative and disaffiliative candidate understandings. Discourse Studies, 14 (5), pp.531-547.Publisher
© SageVersion
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Publication date
2012Notes
This article is Closed Access.ISSN
1461-4456eISSN
1461-7080Publisher version
Language
- en