Reimagining Rapport (Hardcover)

Zane Goebel

ISBN 10: 0190917075 / ISBN 13: 9780190917074

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2021

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Hardcover. 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. ReimaginingRapport 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 withinsociocultural 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 seerapport 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 theconstruction 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 anthropologyDLas well as for others engaged in ethnographic fieldworkDLReimagining Rapport is the first collection to provide an in-depth investigation of this criticallyimportant but previously unexamined concept. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Reimagining Rapport (Hardcover)
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0190917075
• ISBN 13: 9780190917074
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Zane Goebel is Associate Professor of Indonesian and Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He works on language and social relations in Indonesia and has published three monographs: Global Leadership Talk (OUP 2020), Language, Migration and Identity (2010), and Language and Superdiversity (OUP 2015). His work in Indonesia has also led to international collaborations culminating in two other edited volumes: Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters (2019) and Contact Talk (2019).