Second Language Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1.1. Setting up the problem: Interaction and understanding in talk between native and non-native speakers -- 1.2. Method of study, transcription, and data: Institutional vs. everyday conversation -- 1.3. Second language comprehension vs. interactional understanding -- 1.4. The organisation and the relevance of the study -- Repair organisation as a means to construct understanding -- 2.1. Interactional understanding and repair organisation -- 2.2. Initiating or doing repair? -- 2.3. Trouble turns -- Other-correction -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.1.1. The preference organisation for repair in asymmetric conversation -- 3.1.2. Embedded vs. exposed correction -- 3.2. Types of other-repair sequences: Repair is not repeated -- 3.2.1. Extended answers: No overt orientation towards the correction by either of the participants -- 3.2.2. Repetition after new information: Ambiguous orientation to the correction by the recipient -- 3.2.3. Conclusion -- 3.3. Types of other-repair sequences: Orienting to correction by repeating it -- 3.3.1. Repair as a response to uncertainty -- 3.3.2. Non-responsive correction by the NS -- 3.4. Discussion -- Word search -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.1.1. Word search in the CA tradition -- 4.1.2. Word search in L2-data -- 4.2. Lexical searches -- 4.2.1. Initiating the search: Interrogatives as a means to flag the problem -- 4.2.2. Resolving the search: Loan words -- 4.2.3. Resolving the search: Fennicized words -- 4.2.4. Initiating and/or resolving the search: Negating a semantically contiguous referent -- 4.3. Grammatical searches -- 4.3.1. A completing response by the NS -- 4.3.2. No substantial response by the NS -- 4.3.3. The discrepancy in the orientation by the participants: The junction of grammar and lexicon.

4.4. Discussion: Difficulty in finding a word -- Candidate understandings -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. Defining the phenomenon -- 5.1.2. Properties of candidate understandings -- 5.2. Paraphrasing candidate understandings -- 5.2.1. Paraphrases by the NS - condensing previous turns -- 5.2.2. Paraphrases by the NNS - the client's resource -- 5.3. Uncertainty-marked candidate understandings -- 5.3.1. Uncertainty-marked paraphrase as elaborating an utterance -- 5.3.2. Uncertainty-marked paraphrase as identifying a term -- 5.3.3. Uncertainty-marked paraphrases as presenting a conclusion -- 5.3.4. Uncertainty-marked paraphrases: Summary -- 5.4. Completing candidate understandings -- 5.4.1. Completion as a response to difficulty -- 5.4.2. Completion as articulating (revealing) the other's position in a problematic sequence -- 5.4.3. Completing candidate understandings: Summary -- 5.5. Discussion -- Concluding discussion -- 6.1. Tendencies in NS-NNS interaction -- 6.2. Is there a ``non-native fingerprint'' in conversation? -- 6.3. Is there an ``institutional fingerprint'' in conversation? -- 6.4. Implications arising from the present study -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- -24pt -- Chapter 2 -- -24pt -- Chapter 3 -- -24pt -- Chapter 4 -- -24pt -- Chapter 5 -- -24pt -- Chapter 6 -- -24pt -- References -- Appendix -- Transcription symbols -- Glossing symbols -- Case endings -- Others -- Index -- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.