Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives

In: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology Series

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Navigating friendships in interaction: An introduction -- Chapter 1 Doing "being friends" in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies -- Chapter 2 "Awkward moments" during first-time informal online ELF interaction and their social relational consequences -- Chapter 3 Getting to know you: A microethnography of "(not) making friends" in first-time interactions in Japanese -- Chapter 4 Social relationships and institutional roles: Categorizing "novice" and "expert" in foreign language housing -- Chapter 5 Voicing the belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university -- Chapter 6 Pointing out shared commonalities: An investigation into pointing-initiated affiliative sequences as interactional co-displays of friendship -- Chapter 7 Togetherness to build friendship: Rhythmic synchrony through mutual reactions in Japanese multi-party interaction -- Chapter 8 "She says she's going to buy leather boots": Displays of (dis)affiliation in friends' responses to reported complaints -- Chapter 9 There is no love among us: Jocular mockery in Chinese mealtime conversation -- Chapter 10 "Ijiri" as a poetic ritual of bonding among Japanese college soccer club members -- Chapter 11 Say that to my face: Maintaining an intimate relationship after face threatening through negative evaluation -- Chapter 12 "Feeling close" while "being close"?: Toward integrating discursive approaches with evolutionary perspectives on friendships -- Appendix -- Index.