THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: John Gumperz' Approach to Contextualization -- 1. What is contextualization? -- 2. An example: Contextualization at work -- 3. Contextualization in context -- 4. Processes of contextualization: Some suggestions for typologies -- 5. Some properties of contextualization cues -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Contextualization Revisited -- References -- The Indeterminacy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough? -- 'Contextualization' narrow and broad -- So where does 'context' begin and end? -- The qualities or characteristics of functional context -- Defeasibility of contextualization -- Minimaximization and interactional textualization -- "Contextualization cues" in perspective of 'contextualization' -- References -- Context, Activity and Participation -- 1. The interactive organization of activities -- 2. Multiple contexts -- 2.1 Recontextualizing a gesture -- 2.3 Competing alignment claims -- 2.4 Multiple interpretive frameworks -- Disattending a heckler -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Eliciting co-participation within an utterance through head movement -- 3. Gesture: Encouraging co-participation within an utterance -- 4. Multiple action gestures: Implicating alternative sequential trajectories -- 5. Discussion: Sequential organisation and the 'local production of context. -- 6. Postscript: Institutional role and participation status. A reply to Hinnenkamp -- References -- Comments on: Christian Heath: Gesture's Discreet Tasks. Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and the Contextualisation of Language -- Reference -- Previews: Gestures at the Transition Place.

1. Introduction -- 2. The placement of gestures -- 3. Transition place -- 4. Data and transcription -- 5. The [a]-face: A borderline case -- 6. "Palm up": Pre-telling, pre-monitoring a list -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The Return Gesture: Some Remarks on Context, Inference, and Iconic Gesture -- 1. The problem of contextualization of iconic gestures -- 2. Communicative relevance and interactional non-relevance of the iconic gesture -- 3. Return gesture and visual orientation -- 4. The return gesture as a mode of interaction -- 5. The relation of affiliation -- References -- Gendered Contexts -- Play and children'sgames as a research site -- Studying play as breakthrough into performance -- Achieving the narrative voice -- Narrative scripts: how the action goes on -- Game voices - characterization of different voices -- The use of the formula -- The game performance - little girls into mothers -- The moral voice of motherhood -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Progression of events -- Appendix 2: Lindy and Sophie playing Mummies and Babies -- Theatrical Moments: On Contextualizing Funny and Dramatic Moods in the Course of Telling a Story in Conversation -- A note on transcription conventions -- A gossip among girlfriends -- Contextualization of places relevant for laughter -- Contextualization of 'moods' -- Contextualizing 'fun' -- Contextualizing 'dramatic mood ' -- Contrasting rhythms -- Contextualizing narrative progress -- Conclusion -- References -- Comments on: Klaus Müller: Theatrical Moments -- References -- Intonation as a Contextualization Devices: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation -- 1 Introduction -- 2. Premisses and descriptive categories -- 3. A first example -- 4. Asecond example -- 4.1. The internal structure of the story.

4.2. The embedding of the story into the surrounding conversation -- 4.3. Some other relations within the sequence -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Comments on: Margret Selting: Intonation as a Contextualization Device -- References -- Continuing and Restarting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics, turn-holding and projection -- 3. Continuations and completions -- 4. Pitch and loudness as resources for doing continuation -- 5. Conclusions and further possibilities -- References -- Contextualizing Relevance: On Some Forms and Functions of Speech Rate Changes in Everyday Conversation -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The perception of speech rate -- 1.1. Number of sounds, words or syllables per unit of time -- 1.2. Beats or accented syllables per unit of time -- 1.3. Number, duration, and placement of pauses -- 1.4 Fundamental frequency -- 1.5. Résumé -- 2. Contextualizing functions -- 2. 1. Onomatopoetic function -- 2.2. Self-repair -- 2.3. Parenthesis and side comments -- 2.4. Afterthoughts and summaries as turn-exit or topic-exit devices -- 2.5. Degrees of relevance -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- Contextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactive Repair -- Background -- Speech rhythm -- Notation conventions -- An illustration of speech rhythm and its notation -- 'Doing' interactive repair -- The prosodic contextualization of repair: Tempo -- Theprosodic contextualization of repair: Rhythm -- The first move -- The second move -- The third move -- The repair sequence as a whole -- References -- They Know All the Lines: Rhythmic Organization and Contextualization in a Conversational Listing Routine -- Introduction -- The case of a family dinner conversation -- Syntax as a production resource -- Timing and prosody as discourse production resources -- Timing of eating behavior as a production resource.

Conclusion: They know all the lines -- References -- Index -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.