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Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourseEdited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 314] 2020
► pp. 123–144
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 314] 2020
► pp. 123–144
Chapter 6Confronting the EU referendum as
immigrants
How ‘bonding/un-bonding’ works in narratives of Japanese women living in the UK
This paper focuses on how
immigrant Japanese women living in London
categorise themselves in interviews conducted
yearly from 2016 to 2019. Through analyses of
participants’ personal narratives as immigrants
and their relationships with their husbands’
relatives, I investigate (a) how they position
themselves in the post-referendum social order;
(b) how their positioning has changed over the
three-year period; and (c) how their positioning is negotiated with other participants during the course of a group interview. My analysis shows how two kinds
of bonding phenomena emerge during interactions.
The first, social bonding, is a
discursive, ideological practice to connect the
self to social groups, whereas the second,
interactional bonding, refers to
communicative developments participants
create.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 3.Data
- 4.Analysis
- 4.1From the 2016 narrative: Self-categorisations
- 4.2From the 2017 narrative: An ‘immigrant’ is an ‘immigrant’:
Narratives as victims or quasi-victims of
discrimination
- 4.2.1Talking about their relationships with their husbands’ relatives
- 4.2.2Quoting the narratives of others
- 4.2.3Converging on an ideology and resonance in the interactional space
- 4.3From the 2018 narrative: Re-forming their social bond
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
References -
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