Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology)

ISBN 10: 1032463775 / ISBN 13: 9781032463773

Published by Routledge, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032463775
• ISBN 13: 9781032463773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.