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Navigating friendships in interaction: Introduction  1. Doing "being friends" in conversation-for-learning: From language learner-tutor to buddies  2. "Awkward moments" during first-time informal online ELF interaction and their social relational consequences  3. Getting to know you: A microethnograpy of "(not) making friends" in first-time interactions in Japanese  4. Social relationships and institutional roles: Categorizing "novice" and "expert" in foreign language housing  5. Voicing the belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university  6. Pointing out shared commonalities: An investigation into pointing-initiated affiliative sequences as interactional co-displays of friendship  7. Togetherness to build friendship: Rhythmic synchrony through mutual reactions in Japanese multi-party interaction   8. "She says she’s going to buy leather boots": Displays of (dis)affiliation in friends’ responses to reported complaints  9. "There is no love among us": Jocular mockery in Chinese mealtime conversation  10. "Ijiri" as a poetic ritual of bonding among Japanese college soccer club members  11. Say that to my face: Maintaining an intimate relationship after face threatening through negative evaluation  12. "Feeling close" while "being close"? Toward integrating discursive approaches with evolutionary perspectives on friendships