ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 continues my illustration of the use of the small-lens technique. The analysis revolves around a seemingly incongruous emotionally significant episode for two learners: feelings of enjoyment and relatedness during a short conversation from a starting point of discussing experiences of disappointment. In particular, the chapter highlights the co-adaptive emergence of emotions and emotional intersubjectivity (Denzin, 1984) as the students co-create the discursive and emotional context via their social interactions. The analysis reveals the ways in which the interlocutors move away from an overt discussion of disappointment by drawing in various shared transportable identities (Zimmerman, 1998) in conjunction with expressing dimensions of common Japanese (L1) conversational style while interacting in their L2.
