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Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding

A sociocognitive analysis of intercultural encounters

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the act of “bonding” in intercultural encounters. Drawing on a sociocognitive theory of context, I analyze interactions taken from my fieldwork in the United States and research interviews in New Zealand. Against the dominant trend of antimentalism in linguistic anthropology, I focus on common ground (CG) as a cognitive context in interaction. Analytically, I attend to face strategies and relationship implicative actions. My point is argue that the notion of CG needs to be refined and extended by taking into account ideological components. For further empirical studies, I suggest that we should specify what kinds of ideologies are integrated into components of common ground and explore how we can create bonding between participants with conflicting ideologies across national boundaries. Implications for linguistic anthropology are also discussed from an evolutionary perspective.

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the act of “bonding” in intercultural encounters. Drawing on a sociocognitive theory of context, I analyze interactions taken from my fieldwork in the United States and research interviews in New Zealand. Against the dominant trend of antimentalism in linguistic anthropology, I focus on common ground (CG) as a cognitive context in interaction. Analytically, I attend to face strategies and relationship implicative actions. My point is argue that the notion of CG needs to be refined and extended by taking into account ideological components. For further empirical studies, I suggest that we should specify what kinds of ideologies are integrated into components of common ground and explore how we can create bonding between participants with conflicting ideologies across national boundaries. Implications for linguistic anthropology are also discussed from an evolutionary perspective.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships
  5. Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations 17
  6. Chapter 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives 39
  7. Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding 61
  8. Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding
  9. Chapter 4. Bonded but un-bonded 85
  10. Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding 105
  11. Chapter 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants 123
  12. Section III. Bonding through embodied practices
  13. Chapter 7. Familial bonding 147
  14. Chapter 8. Micro-bonding moments 173
  15. Chapter 9. Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals 197
  16. Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality
  17. Chapter 10. Getting to the point 217
  18. Chapter 11. Playful naming in playful framing 239
  19. Chapter 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising 265
  20. List of contributors 283
  21. Author Index 287
  22. Subject Index 289
Bonding through Context
This chapter is in the book Bonding through Context
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.314.05yam

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships
  5. Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations 17
  6. Chapter 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives 39
  7. Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding 61
  8. Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding
  9. Chapter 4. Bonded but un-bonded 85
  10. Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding 105
  11. Chapter 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants 123
  12. Section III. Bonding through embodied practices
  13. Chapter 7. Familial bonding 147
  14. Chapter 8. Micro-bonding moments 173
  15. Chapter 9. Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals 197
  16. Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality
  17. Chapter 10. Getting to the point 217
  18. Chapter 11. Playful naming in playful framing 239
  19. Chapter 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising 265
  20. List of contributors 283
  21. Author Index 287
  22. Subject Index 289
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