Two Projects

Communicating and relating are the two principal concerns of the book, and examining three episodes of everyday interacting makes apparent that one cannot examine the processes of relating apart from examining the processes of communicating. Developing the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating and grounding it in empirical research is the first project, and occupies Part 1: Communicating. Developing Face Constituting Theory; grounding it in the evidence of everyday talk and conduct is the second project and the focus of Part 2: Relating. Communicating & Relating offers an account of how participants themselves go about communicating with one another, and how in doing so they go about relating with one another.