Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters

In ethnographic research, rapport is used to refer to social relationships between researcher and researched. It is viewed as a prerequisite to be achieved before fieldwork can start, or used as evidence to judge the value and robustness of an ethnography. Yet, we know little about how such social relationships emerge through conversations in the field. This collection addresses this issue through the lens of contemporary sociolinguistics.