Approaches to Slavic Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction and overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the volume -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction -- Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The mechanics of co-constructions -- 3. The interactional nature of co-constructions -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Reanimating responsibility: The weź- V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Requesting here-and-now actions with the take-V2 format -- 4. Animating responsibility: Socialising children into an orientation towards communal tasks -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation -- 1. Synopsis -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Gaze grammar -- 4. Eye closing (EC) -- 5. EC as empty gesture: Blinking -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hesitation as a cognitive-pragmatic category -- 3. Stories and storytelling -- 4. Data and methods -- 5. Hesitation markers in the transitions within storytelling and more general telling sequences in t -- 6. The distribution of hesitation markers in the transitions within telling -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction -- Russian everyday utterances: The top lists and some statistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frequency distribution of utterance length in words -- 3. The top lists of Russian everyday utterances.

4. Frequency distribution of utterance length in syllables -- 5. Average duration of utterances depending on their length in syllables -- 6. Dependence of average syllable duration on utterance length in syllables -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Speech rate as reflection of speaker's social characteristics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research material -- 3. Results -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction -- How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evaluation in phonetics and linguistics -- 3. Oral discourse -- 4. Realization of evaluation -- 5. Experimental vs. natural data -- 6. Experimental setup -- 7. Analysis of prosodic and rhetorical features -- 8. Summary and outlook -- References -- 'This is how I see it.' No prefacing in Polish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is no anyway? -- 3. Knowledge in interaction -- 4. Analysis -- 5. [No + more talk] - "my side" collaboration -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- How can I lie if I am telling the truth? - The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak moda -- 1. Introduction and prerequisites -- 2. Basic notions -- 3. Modal strength and conversational backgrounds -- References -- Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction - from (im)politeness to humor -- Irony in the face(s) of politeness: Strategic use of verbal irony in Czech political TV debates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On forming and decoding irony -- 3. Televised debates and their language -- 4. Factors influencing the use of irony in political discussions -- 5. Irony in use: Case studies -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Parliamentary communication: The case of the Russian Gosduma -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political background.

3. The data -- 4. Turn-taking system: The role of the Chair -- 5. Forms of address -- 6. Multi-addressed and multi-layered communication -- 7. Communicating with the broader public: Internet and TV coverage -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Humor as staging an utterance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is animated speech? -- 3. Forms of conversational humor drawing on animated speech -- 4. Is animated speech a 'natural' contextualization cue? -- 5. Conclusion -- Data -- References -- Appendix -- Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families -- Bilingual language use in the family environment: Evidence from a telephone conversation between mem -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Data analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading? Linguistic strategies and language negot -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research background -- 3. Theoretical background -- 4. Data and methodology -- 5. Analysis: When bedtime story reading becomes a language lesson -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Index.