LINGUIST List: Vol-32-486. Mon Feb 08 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 32.486, Books: Reimagining Rapport: Goebel (ed.)
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:01:14
From: Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Reimagining Rapport: Goebel (ed.)
Title: Reimagining Rapport
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reimagining-rapport-9780190917074?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics
Editor: Zane Goebel
Hardback: ISBN: 9780190917074 Pages: 206 Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780197558744 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:
To do ethnography, a researcher must have rapport with research subjects. But
what is rapport? Ethnography and ethnographic methods have increasingly become
a feature of social inquiry in general and sociolinguistics in particular, and
rapport is generally considered a prerequisite for fieldwork. And yet, unlike
related terms such as "communication" and "phatic communion," this concept has
remained largely unexamined.
Reimagining Rapport turns a critical eye to the use of the term "rapport"
across disciplines. The collection analyzes the very idea of rapport, both
exploring how it has been shaped by historical forces and actors within
sociocultural anthropology, and questioning its usefulness. Rather than
viewing the term as simply denoting a type of positive social relationship
that needs to be formed between researcher and consultant before research can
begin, this book invites us to reimagine rapport theoretically,
methodologically, and meta-methodologically. Zane Goebel and other leading
sociolinguists challenge readers to think about how rapport has been
constructed within these disciplines, and ultimately to see rapport as an
emergent, co-constructed social relationship that is actively built during
situated multimodal encounters. The contributors collectively examine the role
of ideology and mediation in the construction of rapport, and argue that
reconceptualizing research-subject relationships is essential for establishing
more sophisticated ways of understanding, interpreting, and representing
research context.
A valuable resource for scholars and students of sociolinguistics and
linguistic anthropology—as well as for others engaged in ethnographic
fieldwork—Reimagining Rapport is the first collection to provide an in-depth
investigation of this critically important but previously unexamined concept.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=150936
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