New Adventures in Language and Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- New adventures in language and interaction -- References -- Interlocutory logic -- Introduction -- 1. Success and failures of the "interactionist paradigm" -- 1.1 Origins of the «interactionist paradigm» -- 1.2 Fundamental theses of the interactionist paradigm -- 1.3 Properties of the «interaction order» -- 1.4 Advocacy for extending the interactionist paradigm to individual cognition -- 2. Towards a unified framework for studying talk-in-interaction -- 2.1 What theoretical requirements should the desired theoretical apparatus satisfy? -- 2.2 Interlocutory logic: A system that satisfies the above requirements -- 2.3 Conducting an analysis in interlocutory logic -- 2.4 An example: The interlocutory logic of a shift-changeover dialogue -- Conclusion -- References -- Beyond symbols -- 1. Beyond symbols -- 2. Bewitched by von Neumann machines -- 3. Complexity in social behaviour -- 4. Interaction is dynamical -- 5. The enslavement principle and the dynamics of gas lasers -- 6. Enslavement and interaction: Parallels and contrasts -- 7. Patrizia and Brunella's dynamics -- 8. Rethinking text-context relations -- 9. The distributed view -- 10. Contextualizing and the enslavement principle -- 11. Interaction & language revisited -- References -- The case for an eclectic approach to discourse-in-interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principles -- 2.1 The data -- 2.2 The rules -- 2.3 The question of units -- 2.4 Adjacency pairs -- 2.5 Speech acts -- 2.6 The sequential organization of interaction -- 2.7 Dialogical interpretation principle -- 2.8 The role of sequential placement -- 2.9 The role of context -- 3. Analyzing an example: Good evening Mr Le Pen -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Grammar -- 1. Introduction.

2. Grammar in conversation analytic(-related) work -- 3. A brief view of grammar & interaction in systemic functional linguistics -- 4. Grammar as an interactive resource -- 4.1 Interpersonal meaning -- 4.2 Ideational meaning -- 4.3 Textual meaning -- 5. Grammar influencing the trajectory of the interaction -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Researching intercultural communication -- 1. Interaction analysis and discourse-based approaches to intercultural communication -- 2. Symbolic interactionism (SI), structuration theory, and discourse-based approaches -- 3. Gumperz's contribution to an interactional conception and analysis of language -- Issues in contemporary studies of interaction -- Drawing on positioning theory and storyline analysis to understand discursive tactics in inter-group communication in non-egalitarian contexts -- Case One: A business executive in Hong Kong -- Case Two: 'Long Hair': A defiant, outspoken, grassroot, democracy fighter in Hong Kong -- Coda -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices -- Introduction -- Action-implicative discourse analysis -- AIDA's intellectual heritage -- Distinctive features of AIDA -- AIDA example: School board meetings -- Studying interaction: A disciplinary conversation -- Disciplinary discourses -- Interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and AIDA in Their disciplinary contexts -- The distinct contribution of AIDA -- References -- Healthcare interaction as an expert communicative system -- 1. Introduction: Expertise as mediated knowledge-in-interaction -- 1.1 Access to expertise and the 'lay expert' -- 1.2 The interactional basis of professional expertise -- 2. The interactionist turn in social and human sciences -- 3. Communicative practices in healthcare encounters -- 4. Activity analysis and interaction types.

5. An extended case study from genetic counselling -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Interacting with difficulty -- 1. 'Problems' in conversation -- 2. Analyses/frameworks used to date -- 3. Connecting lexicogrammar with context -- 4. SFL's perspective on contextual issues -- 5. Lexical retrieval in interaction -- 6. Interpersonal resources -- 7. Interpreting 'problems' as pathological -- 8. Brain & language interaction -- 9. The value of interactional analysis for clinical purposes -- 10. Toward the future -- References -- Ecologies of gesture -- 1. Context -- 2. Ecologies of gesture: Body and environment -- 3. The body in communication -- 4. Historical dimensions -- 5. Dynamical systems -- References -- The neglected listener -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The selectivity of transcription -- 3. Social interaction as an ecosystem -- 3. Playscript transcription privileging speech over other semiotic media -- 4. Alternative approaches to "multimodal" transcription -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Dialogical dynamics -- 1. Joint participation in a flow of spontaneously responsive activity: Shared 'feelings of tendency' -- 2. Developing our practices in practice -- 3. Methods for exploring how to improve our practices from within our conduct of the practices -- 4. Conclusions: From 'aboutness-thinking' to 'withness-thinking' -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.