Bonding through Context

Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse

Editors

Risako Ide | University of Tsukuba

Kaori Hata | Osaka University

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This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of interaction. We analyze bonding as established, not only through the usage of language as a foregrounded code, but also through multi-layered contexts shared on the interactional, corporeal, and socio-cultural levels. The volume comprises twelve chapters examining the processes of bonding (and un-bonding) using situated discourse taken from rich ethnographic data including police suspect interrogations, Skype-mediated family conversations, theatrical rehearsals, storytelling, business email correspondence and advertisements. While the book focuses on processes of bonding in Japanese discourse, the concept of bonding can be applied universally in analyzing the co-creation of semiotic, pragmatic, and communal space in situated discourse.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] 2020. vii, 291 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 November 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.314

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bonding through context

Risako Ide and Kaori Hata | pp. 1–13

Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships

Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations: A focus on person-reference and modality

Kuniyoshi Kataoka | pp. 17–38

Chapter 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives

Cynthia Dickel Dunn | pp. 39–59

Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding: Analyzing benefactives in childrearing narratives

Risako Ide and Takako Okamoto | pp. 61–82

Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding

Chapter 4. Bonded but un-bonded: An ethnographic account of discordance in social relations

Makiko Takekuro | pp. 85–104

Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding: A sociocognitive analysis of intercultural encounters

Masataka Yamaguchi | pp. 105–122

Chapter 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants: How ‘bonding/un-bonding’ works in narratives of Japanese women living in the UK

Kaori Hata | pp. 123–144

Section III. Bonding through embodied practices

Chapter 7. Familial bonding: The establishment of co-presence in webcam-mediated interactions

Chiho Sunakawa | pp. 147–172

Chapter 8. Micro-bonding moments: Laughter in the joint construction of mutual affiliation in initial-encounter interactions by first and second language speakers of Japanese

Cade Bushnell | pp. 173–196

Chapter 9. Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals: An interactional approach of the documentary method of interpretation

Augustin Lefebvre | pp. 197–214

Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality

Chapter 10. Getting to the point: Indexical reference in English and Japanese email discourse

Lindsay Yotsukura | pp. 217–238

Chapter 11. Playful naming in playful framing: The intertextual emergence of neologism

Hiroko Takanashi | pp. 239–264

Chapter 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising: The semiotics of shared narrative

Patricia J. Wetzel | pp. 265–281

List of contributors | pp. 283–285

Author Index | pp. 287–288

Subject Index | pp. 289–291

“No man is an island which explains the significance of this book looking into social bonding. Both enlightening and enthralling, this collection can be credited as a trailblazer in exploring bonding in situated discourse. And it's safe to say that it is bound to appeal to scholars from linguistic, ethnographic, semiotic, sociological fields, communication studies and beyond.”

Rong Wan & Guangwu Feng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, in the Journal of Pragmatics 180 (2021).

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