Table of Contents

Navigating friendships in interaction: Introduction 1. Doing "being friends" in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies 2. "Awkward moments" during first-time informal online ELF interaction and their social relational consequences 3. Getting to know you: A microethnograpy of "(not) making friends" in first-time interactions in Japanese 4. Social relationships and institutional roles: Categorizing "novice" and "expert" in foreign language housing 5. Voicing the belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university 6. Pointing out shared commonalities: An investigation into pointing-initiated affiliative sequences as interactional co-displays of friendship 7. Togetherness to build friendship: Rhythmic synchrony through mutual reactions in Japanese multi-party interaction 8. "She says she’s going to buy leather boots": Displays of (dis)affiliation in friends’ responses to reported complaints 9. "There is no love among us": Jocular mockery in Chinese mealtime conversation 10. "Ijiri" as a poetic ritual of bonding among Japanese college soccer club members 11. Say that to my face: Maintaining an intimate relationship after face threatening through negative evaluation 12. "Feeling close" while "being close"? Toward integrating discursive approaches with evolutionary perspectives on friendships

About the Author

Cade Bushnell is an Associate Professor of International and Advanced Japanese Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has a PhD in East Asian languages and literatures (Japanese linguistics) from the University of Hawai‘i.

Stephen J. Moody is an Associate Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, Utah. He has a PhD in East Asian languages and literatures from the University of Hawai‘i.