Bonding Through Context: Language and Interactional Alignment in Japanese Situated Discourse

Table of contents
Introduction - Bonding through context
Section I Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships
Chapter 1 Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations - A focus on person-reference and modality
Chapter 2 Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives
Chapter 3 The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding - Analyzing benefactives in childrearing narratives
Section II The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding
Chapter 4 Bonded but un-bonded - An ethnographic account of discordance in social relations
Chapter 5 Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding - A sociocognitive analysis of intercultural encounters
Chapter 6 Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants - How ‘bonding/un-bonding’ works in narratives of Japanese women living in the UK
Section III Bonding through embodied practices
Chapter 7 Familial bonding - The establishment of co-presence in webcam-mediated interactions
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
Chapter 9 Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals - An interactional approach of the documentary method of interpretation
Section IV Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality
Chapter 10 Getting to the point - Indexical reference in English and Japanese email discourse
Chapter 11 Playful naming in playful framing - The intertextual emergence of neologism
Chapter 12 Intertextuality in Japanese advertising - The semiotics of shared narrative
List of contributors
Author Index
Subject Index