Reimagining Rapport

This volume analyzes the use of the term "rapport" within anthropology, sociolinguistics, and related fields. 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, the book invites us to reimagine rapport theoretically, methodologically, and meta-methodologically. In doing so it invites the reader 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 built during situated multimodal encounters. This reconceptualization is essential to establishing a more sophisticated understanding of research context.

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).