Communicating & Relating offers an account of how human relating emerges in everyday communicating: an account of how, as participants engage one another in everyday talk and conduct, they mutually constitute actions and meanings, and in so doing constitute both their relationships with one another and what is known across cultures as face.

• Introduction


• 1 Two Projects: Communicating and Relating


• PART I - COMMUNICATING


• 2 What is Social in Communicating


• 3 The Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating


• 4 What is Individual in Communicating


• 5 Conjointly Co-constituting the Social and the Individual in Communicating


• 6 Conjoint Co-constituting's Implications


• PART II - RELATING


• 7 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating


• 8 Face Constituting Theory


• 9 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting


• 10 Researching Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting


• 11 Conjoint Co-constituting, Constituting Face, and Future Research


• Appendix 2 - An Alternate Representation of Conjoint Co-constituting


• Appendix 3 - An Algorithm for Autonomous Co-constituting in Conjoint


• Co-constituting


• References


• Note on Sources

Robert B. Arundale is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. His research involves issues in language and social interaction related to understanding everyday language use in interpersonal communication. Recent publications focus on re-conceptualizing understandings of human communication and of human relating in view of research in conversation analysis.