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Challenging presuppositions in inquiry testimony

2008· article· en· W2131447279 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Susan Ehrlich, Jack Sidnell

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresuppositionDimension (graph theory)SociologyPower (physics)Control (management)EpistemologyManagementPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Drew and Heritage (1992: 49) note that an important dimension of asymmetry in inst itutional discourse ‘arises from the predominantly quest ion-answer pattern of interact ion. ’ Th is organization, it is suggest ed, provides little opportunity for the answerer (typically a lay person) to initiate talk and thus allows the inst itutional representative ‘to gain a measure of control over the introduct ion of topics and hence of the “agenda ” for the occasion. ’ In this paper, we critically examine this issue based on data drawn from a 2001 Ontario (Canada) provincial inquiry into the deaths of seven people as a result of water contamination in a small Ontario town. In particular, we argue that the power of cross-examining lawyers does not reside solely in their ability to ask controlling and rest rict ive quest ions of witnesses. Rather, we suggest that such interact ional control is crucially dependent on lawyers ’ ability to compel witnesses to produce st raightforward, or what we will call, following Raymond (2003), type-conforming, answers to these controlling and rest rict ive quest ions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.882
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.162
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.144 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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