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Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives

Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology

LinguisticsAnthropology

ISBN10: 1032463775
ISBN13: 9781032463773
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 14 2023
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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