"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"--.

• 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