1st Edition
Navigating Friendships in Interaction Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives
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.
Navigating friendships in interaction: Introduction
Stephen J. Moody and Cade Bushnell
1. Doing "being friends" in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies
Younhee Kim
2. "Awkward moments" during first-time informal online ELF interaction and their social relational consequences
Yusuke Okada and Aki Siegel
3. Getting to know you: A microethnograpy of "(not) making friends" in first-time interactions in Japanese
Cade Bushnell
4. Social relationships and institutional roles: Categorizing "novice" and "expert" in foreign language housing
Stephen J. Moody
5. Voicing the belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university
Ayumi Inouchi
6. Pointing out shared commonalities: An investigation into pointing-initiated affiliative sequences as interactional co-displays of friendship
Drew Spain
7. Togetherness to build friendship: Rhythmic synchrony through mutual reactions in Japanese multi-party interaction
Ayako Namba
8. "She says she’s going to buy leather boots": Displays of (dis)affiliation in friends’ responses to reported complaints
Yujong Park
9. There is no love among us: Jocular mockery in Chinese mealtime conversation
Yeming Chu
10. "Ijiri" as a poetic ritual of bonding among Japanese college soccer club members
Risako Ide, Haruka Sakai, Toshiyuki Aoyama and Sho Tashima
11. Say that to my face: Maintaining an intimate relationship after face threatening through negative evaluation
Hironori Sekizaki
12. "Feeling close" while "being close"? Toward integrating discursive approaches with evolutionary perspectives on friendships
Masataka Yamaguchi
Biography
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.
