The Pragmatics of Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the series -- Acknowledgements -- The pragmatics of interaction: A survey -- 1. Layers of interactional organization -- 2. Context, ethnography and categorization -- 3. Multimodality and mediation -- 4. Style and indexicality -- 5. This volume: Interaction as a topic -- References -- Communicative style -- 1. Definition, delimitation, basic concepts -- 2. A few landmark reference works -- 3. Problems -- 4. Sample data and methodology of an interactional stylistic analysis -- The example -- 4.1 The first intuitive analysis of speech styles in the given sequential context -- 4.2 Structural analysis: Decomposition/deconstruction -- 4.2.1 Recipient reaction after this first part of the story telling -- 4.3 Functional analysis -- 4.4 Warranting -- 4.5 Structural analysis: Decomposition/deconstruction -- 4.6 Functional analysis -- 4.7 Warranting -- 5. Perspectives for future research -- References -- Conversation Analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins and overview -- 3. Data, transcription and analysis -- 4. Exhibiting an understanding in next turn -- 5. Conditional relevance of next position -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Conversation types -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three basic dimensions -- 2.1 The channel -- 2.2 Dyadic vs. multi-person -- 2.3 Everyday vs. institutional -- 3. Types of institutional talk -- 4. Symmetry and asymmetry in conversations -- 5. Conversation types and communicative genres -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Ethnomethodology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 3. Social action, social knowledge -- 3.1 Norms and rules -- 3.2 The contexted character of actions -- 3.2.1 Indexicality -- 3.2.2 Reflexivity -- 3.3 Rationality -- 4. Commonsense reasoning -- 5. Developments in ethnomethodology -- 6. Conclusion.

References -- Erving Goffman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The primacy of the situation -- 3. Ritual and the sacred self -- 4. Goffman's working framework -- 5. Goffman's influence and significance -- Note -- References -- Interactional linguistics -- 1. Background -- 2. Points of departure -- 3. Topics -- 4. Possibilities and challenges -- References -- Listener response -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to the study of listener responses -- 2.1 The lumping approach -- 2.1.1 Structural properties of listener response -- 2.1.2 Roles and functions of listener responses in conversation -- 2.2 The splitting approach -- 3. Classification of listener response -- 4. Cross-cultural study of listener response -- 5. Gender-differentiated use of listener response -- 6. Future research -- References -- Participation -- 1. "Phatic communion" and the practices of participation -- 2. Goffman: Attention, involvement and focused encounters -- 3. Goffman: Footing -- 4. Elaborations and critique of footing -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Politeness -- 1. Historical overview -- 2. Approaches to politeness -- 2.1. Folk notion -- 2.2 Conversational maxim(s) -- 2.3 Redress to face-threat -- 2.4 Social marking -- 2.5 Conversational contract -- 2.6 Politeness and politic behavior -- 2.7 Politeness and tact -- 3. Expression of politeness -- 3.1. Inherently polite speech acts? -- 3.2 Conventions of means -- 3.3. Conventions of form -- 4. Variables in politeness investment -- 5. Discourse perspective -- 6. Further reading -- References -- Prosody -- 1. Prosody defined -- 2. Prosody as a pragmatic phenomenon -- 3. Prosody and early work on spoken discourse -- 4. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: Structural dimensions -- 4.1 Turn construction -- 4.2 Sequential organization -- 4.3 Floor management -- 5. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: Interactional dimensions.

5.1 Prosodic routines for action -- 5.2 Prosodic cueing of stance and affect -- 6. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: A case study -- 7. Directions for future research -- References -- Reported speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Influential figures -- 2.1 Vološinov and Bakhtin -- 2.2 Goffman -- 3. Forms of reported speech -- 3.1 Categories and terminology -- 3.2 The reporting clause -- 4. Reported speech in discourse -- 4.1 The authenticity of reported speech -- 4.2 Reported speech in storytelling -- 4.3 The interactional environments of reported speech -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Harvey Sacks -- References -- Sequence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The adjacency pair -- 3. A context of publicly displayed and continuously up-dated intersubjective understandings" -- 4. Preference -- 5. Structural consequences of preference organization -- 6. Sequence organization -- 7. The power of sequential analysis -- References -- Transcription systems for spoken discourse -- 1. Transcription: Basic terminology -- 2. Speaking: The behavior under consideration -- 2.1 The verbal component -- 2.2 The prosodic component -- 2.3 The paralinguistic component -- 2.4 The extralinguistic component -- 3. Current transcription systems -- 3.1 Du Bois' discourse transcription (DT) -- 3.2 Ehlich's heuristic interpretative auditory transcription (HIAT) -- 3.3 The transcription system of Gumperz & Berenz -- 3.4 The Jeffersonian tradition -- 3.5 MacWhinney's CHAT system for the CHILDES project -- 4. Conclusion: Basic principles for scientific use of transcription -- References -- Index -- The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.