What is it about?
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. The book comprises of twelve chapters examining the processes of bonding (and un-bonding) using situated discourse taken from rich ethnographic data.
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Why is it important?
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. 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.
Perspectives
This book will be a good read for graduate students and scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and linguistic anthropology. I also hope it gets read among scholars interested in Japanese discourse so as to come with a renewed understanding on how people bond and un-bond using the Japanese language.
Risako Ide
University of Tsukuba
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This page is a summary of: Bonding through Context, November 2020, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/pbns.314.
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