Print Price: $81.50

Format:
Hardback
496 pp.
6 illustrations, 6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190210199

Publication date:
February 2020

Imprint: OUP US

Communicating & Relating

Constituting Face in Everyday Interacting

Robert B. Arundale

Series : 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.

Readership : Scholars in the discipline of Communication, principally as focused in human communication as in the USA (it is generally understood more loosely in Europe as the field of "communication studies"). These include scholars focused on communication theory, interpersonal and relational communication, and language and social interaction.

Reviews

• "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