Situating ‘intelligence’ in the technology of talk

The ‘intelligence’ of any participant in conversation is constantly in question. A beat too long of silence, one too many disfluencies, or an unaccountable action can occasion the withdrawal of attributions of competence, agency, and even personhood. Certain categories are especially vulnerable to inferences about atypicality and incompetence (Walton et al., 2020) including disabled people, […]