Negotiation of Contingent Talk -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transcript conventions -- Abbreviations used in the interlinear gloss -- Introduction -- 1.1. Phenomena -- 1.2. Theoretical framework -- 1.2.1. Previous studies of particles and considerations of terminology -- 1.2.2. Pragmatics and Japanese interactional particles -- 1.2.3. Functional Linguistics to Interactional Linguistics -- 1.2.4. Conversation Analysis -- 1.3. Objectives -- 1.4. Data -- 1.5. Organization of the study -- Notes -- Review of previous research -- 2.1. Final particles vs. insertion particles -- 2.2. Syntagmatic analysis -- 2.3. Association with gender -- 2.4. Association with speech style -- 2.5. Association with modality -- 2.6. Cognitive approaches -- 2.7. Indexicality -- 2.8. Intonation -- 2.9. An interactional perspective -- 2.10. Summary of Chapter 2 -- Notes -- Interactionally-relevant units -- 3.1. Do ``final particles'' actually occur at final positions? -- 3.1.1. ``Sentence-final'' position vs. ``sentence-internal'' position -- 3.1.2. Beyond the sentential notion of interactional particles -- 3.1.3. Turn-final vs. turn-internal use -- 3.2. What kind of unit is being made relevant by these particles? -- 3.2.1. Intonation units -- 3.2.2. Pragmatic completion points -- 3.2.3. Interactionally-relevant units -- 3.3. Summary of Chapter 3 -- Notes -- Interactional particle ne -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Alignment in action -- 4.3. Ne in action initiation -- 4.3.1. Turn-initial position of initiating an action -- 4.3.2. Ne with ``pre-starts'' -- 4.3.3. How ne subserves to elicit a specific action -- 4.3.4. Indication of ne-speakers' interactional concerns as local pragmatic work -- 4.4. Ne in assessment -- 4.4.1. Obligatory marking with ne -- 4.5. Ne in other responsive positions.

4.6. Ne in questions -- 4.6.1. Cases with the question marker ka plus the interactional particle ne -- 4.7. Ne in the third position of question sequences -- 4.8. Summary of Chapter 4 -- 4.9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Interactional particle sa -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. Previous studies of sa -- 5.1.2. Negotiability of the talk's elements -- 5.2. Prospective non-negotiability in actions -- 5.3. Sa in disjunctive actions -- 5.3.1. Marking onset of different phases in activity -- 5.3.2. Marking a topic change -- 5.3.3. ``Unilateral departure'' -- 5.4. Prospective non-negotiability of other kinds of moves -- 5.4.1. Temporarily shifting the focal referent as a prospective non-negotiable move -- 5.4.2. Prospective non-negotiability in the initiation of assessment -- 5.5. Repetitive use of sa in narratives -- 5.6. Summary of Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Concluding remarks -- 6.1. The notion of the unit in Japanese talk -- 6.2. Particularized functions -- 6.3. Learning to use interactional particles -- 6.4. Interactional particles and speech style -- 6.5. Towards a better understanding of the practices of social order -- 6.6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.