Formulating other minds in social interaction

• Verfasst von: Zinken, Jörg [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kaiser, Julia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Formulating other minds in social interaction
• Titelzusatz: accountability and courses of action
• Verf.angabe: Jörg Zinken and Julia Kaiser, Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS)
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: April 2022
• Umfang: 26 S.
• Fussnoten: Online veröffentlicht: 6. Oktober 2020 ; Gesehen am 14.03.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Language in society
• Ort Quelle: London [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 51(2022), 2 vom: Apr., Seite 185-210
• ISSN Quelle: 1469-8013
• DOI: doi:10.1017/S0047404520000688
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1919767614

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)*