Zinken2022

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Zinken2022
BibType ARTICLE
Key Zinken2022
Author(s) Jörg Zinken, Julia Kaiser
Title Formulating other minds in social interaction: Accountability and courses of action
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Tag(s) EMCA, Accountability, Beliefs, Courses of action, Formulations, Inference, Subjectivity, Topicalization
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Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 51
Number 2
Pages 185–210
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404520000688
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Abstract

We examine moments in social interaction in which a person formulates what another thinks or believes. Such formulations of belief constitute a practice with specifiable contexts and consequences. Belief formulations treat aspects of the other person's prior conduct as accountable on the basis that it provided a new angle on a topic, or otherwise made a surprising contribution within an ongoing course of actions. The practice of belief formulations subjectivizes the content that the other articulated and thereby topicalizes it, mobilizing commitment to that position, an account, or further elaboration. We describe how the practice can be put to work in different activity contexts: sometimes it is designed to undermine the other's position as a subjective ‘mere belief’, at other times it serves to mobilize further topic talk. Throughout, belief formulations show themselves to be a method by which we get to know ourselves and each other as mental agents. (Accountability, beliefs, courses of action, formulations, inference, subjectivity, topicalization)*

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