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.

• Introduction1 Two Projects: Communicating and RelatingPART I - COMMUNICATING2 What is Social in Communicating 3 The Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating4 What is Individual in Communicating 5 Conjointly Co-constituting the Social and the Individual in Communicating6 Conjoint Co-constituting's Implications PART II - RELATING7 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating8 Face Constituting Theory9 Conjointly Co-constituting Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting10 Researching Relating and Face in Everyday Interacting11 Conjoint Co-constituting, Constituting Face, and Future Research Appendix 2 - An Alternate Representation of Conjoint Co-constitutingAppendix 3 - An Algorithm for Autonomous Co-constituting in Conjoint Co-constitutingReferencesNote on Sources

The book is also well organized and well written. Each chapter presents a new development in the model, theoretically and empirically well grounded. For these reasons, I highly recommend the book to students and researchers in pragmatics, communication studies, conversation analysis and face. In fact, it deserves a close reading by anyone interested in human interacting, communicating and relating.