1st Edition

Navigating Friendships in Interaction Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives

Edited By Cade Bushnell, Stephen J. Moody Copyright 2024
280 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.