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

Intro -- Bonding through Context -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Bonding through context -- 1. The concept of "bonding" in post 3.11 Japan -- 2. Bonding through context on tri-layered grounds -- Interactional level -- Corporeal level -- Socio-cultural level -- 3. The plan of the book -- Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships -- Section II. The tactics and haggling of "bonding/un-bonding" -- Section III. Bonding through embodied practices -- Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships -- 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations: A focus on person-reference and modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Data and object of analysis -- 3.1 Data in focus -- 3.2 Linguistic items in focus -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Distribution of the particle and interjective use of 'ne', 'yo', and 'na' -- 4.2 Distribution of 'ninshōshi' 'person-reference terms' -- 4.2.1 Substitution of 'jishōshi' 'first person/self-reference terms' -- 4.2.2 Substitution of 'taishōshi' 'second-person-reference terms' -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bonding and narrative positioning -- 3. Reported speech and thought -- 4. Data and analysis -- 5. Narrative frames, speaking roles, and speech styles -- 5.1 The narrating frame: Public Speaking Register -- 5.2 The narrated frame: Reported Speech and Thought -- 6. Functions of reported thought in public speaking narratives -- 6.1 Use of reported thought to draw contrasts between what was thought and what was (not) said.

6.2 Use of reported thought to enact emotional reactions of the narrated character -- 6.3 Reported speech allows the statement of forceful assertions without directing the illocutionary force of the utterance at the narrative audience -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding: Analyzing benefactives in childrearing narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical backgrounds -- 2.1 Grammatical usage of benefit expressions -- 2.2 The ideological usage of '-te kureru' -- 2.3 The changing Japanese family and gender norms -- 3. Data and results -- 4. Analysis: Husband and wife bonding in childrearing narratives -- 4.1 The use of -'te kureru' among the housewife group -- 4.2 The non-usage of -'te kureru' and use of '-te morau' among the dual-income group -- 4.3 The non-usage of -'te kureru' among the farmer group -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding -- 4. Bonded but un-bonded: An ethnographic account of discordance in social relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discordance -- 3. Ishigaki Island -- 4. What happened then vs. how they commented on it later -- 4.1 Seemingly bonded at the drinking gathering -- 4.2 The participants' comments about their temporary bonds -- 5. Implication of this study -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding: A sociocognitive analysis of intercultural encounters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research questions and background theoretical concerns -- 3. Conceptual framework -- 3.1 An overview of the sociocognitive theory -- 3.2 Common ground (CG) -- 3.3 Two face strategies: Involvement and independence -- 3.4 Relationship implicative actions -- 4. Background to data.

5. Data analysis -- 5.1 (Un)bonding in the discourse of war -- 5.2 Bonding in narrating about "whaling" -- 6. Discussion and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Transcription conventions -- 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants: How 'bonding/un-bonding' works in narratives of Japanese women living in the UK -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Data -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 From the 2016 narrative: Self-categorisations -- 4.2 From the 2017 narrative: An 'immigrant' is an 'immigrant': Narratives as victims or quasi-victims of discrimination -- 4.2.1 Talking about their relationships with their husbands' relatives -- 4.2.2 Quoting the narratives of others -- 4.2.3 Converging on an ideology and resonance in the interactional space -- 4.3 From the 2018 narrative: Re-forming their social bond -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Section III. Bonding through embodied practices -- 7. Familial bonding: The establishment of co-presence in webcam-mediated interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies and theoretical background -- 2.1 Ethnographic studies about mediated interactions -- 2.2 Webcam maneuvers as multimodal resources -- 3. Data and background -- 4. Mediated repetition as a bonding strategy -- 4.1 The relationship between webcam movement and repetition -- 4.2 Locally embedded webcam: Sharing a meal -- 4.3 Parenting across space -- 4.4 Performed bonding through repetition -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 8. Micro-bonding moments: Laughter in the joint construction of mutual affiliation in initial-encounter interactions by first and second language speakers of Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data, participants, methodology -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Co-determination of a course of action -- 3.2 Being naughty -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks.

Funding -- References -- 9. Creating interactional bonds duringtheatrical rehearsals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The actors' performance -- 3. The director's correction -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality -- 10. Getting to the point: Indexical reference in English and Japanese email discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview to the chapter -- 3. Indexical reference and marketing strategies in English membership confirmations -- 4. Indexical reference and marketing strategies in English order confirmations -- 5. Indexical reference and marketing strategies in Japanese membership confirmations -- 6. Indexical reference and marketing strategies in Japanese order confirmations -- 7. Discussion: Honorific and humble polite forms as social deictics in Japanese emails -- 8. Pedagogical implications and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. English membership confirmation email -- Appendix B. English order confirmation email -- Appendix C. Japanese membership confirmation -- Appendix D. Japanese order confirmation -- 11. Playful naming in playful framing: The intertextual emergence of neologism -- 1. Introduction: Contextually bound meaning of humor -- 2. Contextualization of conversational play -- 2.1 Intertextuality -- 2.2 Stance -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 Proximate resonance with an existing compound noun -- 3.3 Remote resonance within the conversation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising: The semiotics of shared narrative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intertextuality in advertising -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- List of contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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