Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198856436
- ISBN10 0198856431
- Type Book
- Pages 272
- Published 2020
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Sections
Philosophy Of LanguageConversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others. These forms of conversational pressure are many and far from uniform, so much so that it is unclear whether they constitute a single cohesive class. In this book Sanford C.
Goldberg explores the source, nature, and scope of the normative expectations we have of one another as we engage in conversation that are generated by the performance of speech acts themselves. In doing so heexamines two fundamental types of expectation - epistemic and interpersonal. It is through normative expectations of these types that we aim to hold one another to standards of proper conversational conduct.
This line of argument is pursued in connection with such topics as the normativesignificance of acts of address, the epistemic costs of politeness, the bearing of epistemic injustice on the epistemology of testimony, the normative pressure friendship exerts on belief, the nature of epistemic trust, the significance of conversational silence, and the various evils of silencing. By approaching these matters in terms of the normative expectations to which conversational participants are entitled, Goldberg aims to offer a unified account of the various pressures that areexerted in the course of a speech exchange.