Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-5630-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 225, 238 Seiten, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people evaluate each others’ cognitive competences as they deal with each others’ understandings, knowings, feelings, doings, hearings and learnings face-to-face.
The contributions focus on different evaluation activities in a variety of institutional settings in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Holland and the United States of America.
All the contributions approach the theme by use of Ethnomethodology (EM) and/or Conversation Analysis (CA). Thus, the analytic interests concern how participants organize activities of evaluating cognitive competences by means of recognizable interactional methods. This approach differs from other approaches and research interests within cognitive science as it concentrates on how people in interaction orient towards cognitive competence irrespective of scientific theories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rasmussen, Gitte

Brouwer, Catherine E.

Day, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Gitte Rasmussen

The embedded evaluations in air traffic control training
Inka Koskela and Ilkka Arminen

Teacher evaluations: Assessing 'knowing', 'understanding', and 'doing'
Tom Koole

Treating student contributions as displays of understanding in group supervision
Dennis Day and Susanne Kjaerbeck

Good reasons for seemingly bad performance: Competences at the blackboard and the accountability of a lesson
Junko Mori and Timothy Koschmann

Mutual negotiation of the interviewee’s competence in interview interaction
Mika Simonen

Evaluating by feeling: The rhetorical design of emotions in the practice of mirroring
Thomas Wiben Jensen

Interactive evaluation of cognitive functioning
Ann-Christin Mansson

Talking 'cognition' in the audiology clinic
Catherine E. Brouwer

Triumphing: When ‘mental state’ evaluations become insults
Gitte Rasmussen

Index