Interaction, face-to-face

Authors

• Maria Luz Garcia, Eastern Michigan University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2020

Department/School

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology

Publication Title

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

Abstract

Face-to-face interaction is a level of analysis in linguistic anthropology that can be considered in relation to the analysis of global phenomena or interaction that is mediated through some other technology like writing, text messaging, social media, or video conferencing. Face-to-face interaction has always been fundamental to the study of linguistic anthropology, but the way that the discipline has approached this type of analysis and the types of insights it has led to have changed as the discipline has developed. Approaches to the analysis of face-to-face interaction have responded to influences from cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and other related fields of study as well as to shifting paradigms in the social sciences more broadly. At the same time, linguistic anthropological analysis of face-to-face interaction contributes to the understanding of methods and topics throughout the social sciences.

Comments

M. L. Garcia is a faculty member in EMU's Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology.

Recommended Citation

Garcia, M. L. (2020). Interaction, face-to-face. In J. Stanlaw (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology (pp. 1–5). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0174