Communicating & Relating
Constituting Face in Everyday Interacting
Robert B. Arundale
Reviews and Awards
"The book is also well organized and well written. Each chapter presents a new development in the model, theoretically and empirically well grounded. For these reasons, I highly recommend the book to students and researchers in pragmatics, communication studies, conversation analysis and face. In fact, it deserves a close reading by anyone interested in human interacting, communicating and relating." -- Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska , Journal of Pragmatics
"This book would be a welcome addition to researchers and graduate students interested in communication, conversational analysis and face. The writing style and frequent use of examples makes the arguments easy to follow... Communicating & Relating is a clear argument for a revolutionary way of considering human interaction with pertinent examples illustrating key notions." -- Stephanie Lerat, University of Lorraine, Linguist List
"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
