%0 Journal Article
%T Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories
%A Joe Webb
%A Marina Gall
%A Sandra Dowling
%A Val Williams
%J Discourse Studies
%@ 1461-7080
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1461445618802657
%X This article aims to explore how epistemic status is negotiated during talk about the life memories of one speaker. Direct questions which foreground ¡®remembering¡¯ can lead to troubled sequences of talk. However, interlocutors sometimes frame their first parts as ¡®co-rememberings¡¯, and the sequential positioning of these can be crucial to the outcome of the talk. We draw on almost 10 hours of video data from dementia settings, where memory is a talked-about matter. Our focus is on 30 sequences which are initiated with a question or other first part taking a K-stance, selecting one person as next speaker, and topically relating to the recipient¡¯s past life. We show how type 2 knowables can be used alongside markers of tentativeness, to jointly construct the recipient¡¯s epistemic primacy
%K Asymmetries in talk
%K co-remembering
%K dementia
%K epistemic primacy
%K epistemics
%K questions
%K reminiscence
%K support practices
%K type 2 knowables
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461445618802657