Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges - Hardcover
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Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges - Hardcover
$196.65
by Sanford C. Goldberg (Author)
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 he examines 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 normative significance 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 are exerted in the course of a speech exchange.
Author Biography
Sanford C. Goldberg, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Sanford C. Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995 and has taught previously at Grinnell College, the University of Kentucky. He has also served as Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2014-2017) and at the University of St. Andrews (2018-present).
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: September 23, 2020
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