1st Edition

Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction

202 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction. Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction examines trustworthiness as a relational and dynamic concept. It reviews sociological and rhetorical... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Doing EM/CA research of inferred social phenomena

3. Defining trustworthiness as an interactional phenomenon

4. Methodology and data

5. Orientation to truth and honesty

6. Orientation to stake and interest

7. Orientation to knowledge and ability

8. Orientation to consistency and predictability

9. Concluding discussion

Index

Biography

Mie Femø Nielsen is a Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen is a Postdoc in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"The volume offers detailed and illuminating insight into the interactional dimensions of establishing and ascertaining trustworthiness in interaction. This is welcome and important research for the phenomenon of trust which is too often treated like an essential quality of persons rather than a relational dynamic interactional effect."
Anna Weichselbraun, Language in Society