Communicating & Relating: Constituting Face in Everyday Interacting(Foundations of Human Interaction)

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships arise in human communicating, and some studies have made arguments for why that is the case. Communicating & Relating moves beyond this work to offer an account of how both relating and face emerge in everyday talk and conduct: what comprises human communicating, what defines human social systems, how the social and the individual are linked in human life, and what comprises human relating and face. Part 1 develops the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating to address the question "How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting?" Part 2 argues that the processes of constituting what is known cross-culturally as "face" are the processes of constituting relating, and develops Face Constituting Theory to address the question "How do participants constitute relating in everyday interacting?" The answers to both questions are grounded in evidence from everyday talk and conduct. Like other volumes in the Foundations of Human Interaction series, Communicating & Relating offers new perspectives and new research on communicative interaction and on human relationships as key elements of human sociality.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Two Projects: Communicating and Relating PART I - COMMUNICATING 2 What is Social in Communicating 3 The Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating 4 What is Individual in Communicating 5 Conjointly Co-constituting the Social and the Individual in Communicating 6 Conjoint Co-constituting's Implications PART II - RELATING 7 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating 8 Face Constituting Theory 9 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting 10 Researching Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting 11 Conjoint Co-constituting, Constituting Face, and Future Research Appendix 2 - An Alternate Representation of Conjoint Co-constituting Appendix 3 - An Algorithm for Autonomous Co-constituting in Conjoint Co-constituting References Note on Sources

About the Author :
Robert B. Arundale is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. His research involves issues in language and social interaction related to understanding everyday language use in interpersonal communication. Recent publications focus on re-conceptualizing understandings of human communication and of human relating in view of research in conversation analysis.

Review :
"The book is also well organized and well written. Each chapter presents a new development in the model, theoretically and empirically well grounded. For these reasons, I highly recommend the book to students and researchers in pragmatics, communication studies, conversation analysis and face. In fact, it deserves a close reading by anyone interested in human interacting, communicating and relating." -- Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska , Journal of Pragmatics "This book would be a welcome addition to researchers and graduate students interested in communication, conversational analysis and face. The writing style and frequent use of examples makes the arguments easy to follow... Communicating & Relating is a clear argument for a revolutionary way of considering human interaction with pertinent examples illustrating key notions." -- Stephanie Lerat, University of Lorraine, Linguist List "Arundale brings a fresh--and refreshingly critical--eye to the problem of how humans use talk-in-interaction to negotiate social relationships, 'face,' and mutual understanding. He keenly synthesizes theoretical contributions and methodological approaches from disparate subfields that do not often 'talk' to each other. Ultimately, Arundale provides a novel theoretical lens, as well as an empirical pathway, to study these issues." -- Jeffrey Robinson, Portland State University "This book will change the way you think about relationships and social interaction. It is an absolute must-read for scholars in communication, pragmatics, conversation analysis, social psychology and beyond, as it challenges the individual-centred paradigm of much of our scholarship to date. It is a book packed with insightful and rigorous analyses of the fundamental building blocks of social interaction, and lays the foundations of a truly interactional theory of communication and relationships." -- Michael Haugh, The University of Queensland "In Communicating and Relating, Robert B. Arundale presents a new theory of the fundamental communication process by which interacting persons co-constitute individuality, relationships and larger-scale social systems. Comprehensive in scope, deep in scholarship, empirically grounded and rigorously agued, this book is a model of systematic theory development that challenges previous conceptions of communication while charting a new way forward for research on human interaction across the field." -- Robert T. Craig, University of Colorado Boulder