Navigating Friendships in Interaction
Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-032-46378-0 (ISBN)
Description
Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic perspectives to examine Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English interactional data.
Since the definition of friendship is hard to pin down, most sociocultural anthropologists have tended to focus on issues of kinship and descent, while leaving friendship as a residual or interstitial issue. However, this book puts friendship as the central focus and offers unique perspectives from the participants themselves. The interactional work implicated in the accomplishment of making and being friends, and the trials and tribulations of friendship, are both explored through the many detailed analyses showing how the participants navigate the calm and rough waters of friendship in and through their everyday interactions.
Researchers, undergraduates, and postgraduate students in the fields of conversation analysis, pragmatics, and other social sciences will benefit from the real-life examples in the book as well as the analysis.
Since the definition of friendship is hard to pin down, most sociocultural anthropologists have tended to focus on issues of kinship and descent, while leaving friendship as a residual or interstitial issue. However, this book puts friendship as the central focus and offers unique perspectives from the participants themselves. The interactional work implicated in the accomplishment of making and being friends, and the trials and tribulations of friendship, are both explored through the many detailed analyses showing how the participants navigate the calm and rough waters of friendship in and through their everyday interactions.
Researchers, undergraduates, and postgraduate students in the fields of conversation analysis, pragmatics, and other social sciences will benefit from the real-life examples in the book as well as the analysis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
96 s/w Abbildungen, 45 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 51 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 51 Line drawings, black and white; 45 Halftones, black and white; 96 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-46378-0 (9781032463780)
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Cade Bushnell | Stephen J. Moody
Navigating Friendships in Interaction
Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
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12/2023
1st Edition
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Cade Bushnell | Stephen J. Moody
Navigating Friendships in Interaction
Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€60.49
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Navigating Friendships in Interaction
Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
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12/2023
1st Edition
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Persons
Cade Bushnell is an Associate Professor of International and Advanced Japanese Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has a PhD in East Asian languages and literatures (Japanese linguistics) from the University of Hawai'i.
Stephen J. Moody is an Associate Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, Utah. He has a PhD in East Asian languages and literatures from the University of Hawai'i.
Stephen J. Moody is an Associate Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, Utah. He has a PhD in East Asian languages and literatures from the University of Hawai'i.
Content
Navigating friendships in interaction: Introduction 1. Doing "being friends" in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies 2. "Awkward moments" during first-time informal online ELF interaction and their social relational consequences 3. Getting to know you: A microethnograpy of "(not) making friends" in first-time interactions in Japanese 4. Social relationships and institutional roles: Categorizing "novice" and "expert" in foreign language housing 5. Voicing the belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university 6. Pointing out shared commonalities: An investigation into pointing-initiated affiliative sequences as interactional co-displays of friendship 7. Togetherness to build friendship: Rhythmic synchrony through mutual reactions in Japanese multi-party interaction 8. "She says she's going to buy leather boots": Displays of (dis)affiliation in friends' responses to reported complaints 9. "There is no love among us": Jocular mockery in Chinese mealtime conversation 10. "Ijiri" as a poetic ritual of bonding among Japanese college soccer club members 11. Say that to my face: Maintaining an intimate relationship after face threatening through negative evaluation 12. "Feeling close" while "being close"? Toward integrating discursive approaches with evolutionary perspectives on friendships