Epistemic calibration : Achieving affiliation through access claims and generalizations
Koskinen, Emmi; Stevanovic, Melisa (2022-07-28)
Koskinen, Emmi
Stevanovic, Melisa
28.07.2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202211078215
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202211078215
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Sometimes a division has been made between expressions of knowledge and expressions of emotion, but in the actual instances of interaction, they are deeply intertwined. In this paper we investigate the relationship between these expressions through the notions of affiliation and epistemics. More specifically, we analyze the phenomenon of 'epistemic calibration' in response to tellings of personal experience, where recipients fine-tune the strength of their access claims and the degree of their generalizations to be in line with their epistemic statuses in relation to those of the tellers. Drawing on a dataset of Finnish quasi-natural conversations with neurotypical participants and participants diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, we explore how such calibration is done in practice. Our analysis points to different challenges in epistemic calibration, which, we argue, play an important role in influencing the hearing of these responses as less than fully affiliative.
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