The pragmatics of interaction:A survey&Sigurd D'hondt

1．Layers of interactional organization

2．Context,ethnography and categorization

3．Multimodality and mediation

4．Style and indexicality

5．This volume:Interaction as a topic

Communicative style&Margret Selting

1．Definition,delimitation,basic concepts

2．A few landmark reference works

3．Problems

4．Sample data and methodology of an interactional stylistic analysis

4.1 The first intuitive analysis of speech styles in the given sequential context

4.2 Structural analysis:Decomposition/deconstruction

4.2.1 Recipient reaction after this first part of the story telling

4.3 Functional analysis

4.4 Warranting

4.5 Structural analysis:Decomposition/deconstruction

4.6 Functional analysis

4.7 Warranting

5．Perspectives for future research

Conversation analysis&Rebecca Clift,Paul Drew ？ Ian Hutchby

1．Introduction

2．Origins and overview

3．Data,transcription and analysis

4．Exhibiting an understanding in next turn

5．Conditional relevance of next position

6．Conclusions

Conversation types&Auli Hakulinen

1．Introduction

2．Three basic dimensions

2.1 The channel

2.2 Dyadic vs.multi-person

2.3 Everyday vs.institutional

3．Types of institutional talk

4．Symmetry and asymmetry in conversations

5．Conversation types and communicative genres

6．Conclusion

Ethnomethodology&Alan Firth

1．Introduction

2．Overview

3．Social action,social knowledge

3.1 Norms and rules

3.2 The contexted character of actions

3.2.1 Indexicality

3.2.2 Reflexivity

3.3 Rationality

4．Commonsense reasoning

5．Developments in ethnomethodology

6．Conclusion

Erving Goffman&Jim O'Driscoll

1．Introduction

2．The primacy of the situation

3．Ritual and the sacred self

4．Goffman's working framework

5．Goffman's influence and significance

Interactional linguistics&Jan Lindstr？m

1．Background

2．Points of departure

3．Topics

4．Possibilities and challenges

Listener response&Deng Xudong

1．Introduction

2．Approaches to the study of listener responses

2.1 The lumping approach

2.1.1 Structural properties of listener response

2.1.2 Roles and functions of listener responses in conversation

2.2 The splitting approach

3．Classification of listener response

4．Cross-cultural study of listener response

5．Gender-differentiated use of listener response

6．Future research

Participation&Jack Sidnell

1．"Phatic communion"and the practices of participation

2．Goffman:Attention,involvement and focused encounters

3．Goffman:Footing

4．Elaborations and critique of footing

5．Conclusion

Politeness&Gabriele Kasper

1．Historical overview

2．Approaches to politeness

2.1 Folk notion

2.2 Conversational maxim(s)

2.3 Redress to face-threat

2.4 Social marking

2.5 Conversational contract

2.6 Politeness and politic behavior

2.7 Politeness and tact

3．Expression of politeness

3.1 Inherently polite speech acts?

3.2 Conventions of means

3.3 Conventions of form

4．Variables in politeness investment

5．Discourse perspective

6．Further reading

Prosody&Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

1．Prosody defined

2．Prosody as a pragmatic phenomenon

3．Prosody and early work on spoken discourse

4．Prosody in talk-in-interaction:Structural dimensions

4.1 Turn construction

4.2 Sequential organization

4.3 Floor management

5．Prosody in talk-in-interaction:Interactional dimensions

5.1 Prosodic routines for action

5.2 Prosodic cueing of stance and affect

6．Prosody in talk-in-interaction:A case study

7．Directions for future research

Reported speech&Elizabeth Holt

1．Introduction

2．Influential figures

2.1 Volo？inov and Bakhtin

2.2 Goffman

3．Forms of reported speech

3.1 Categories and terminology

3.2 The reporting clause

4．Reported speech in discourse

4.1 The authenticity of reported speech

4.2 Reported speech in storytelling

4.3 The interactional environments of reported speech

5．Conclusion

Harvey Sacks&Rod Watson

Sequence&Jack Sidnell

1．Introduction

2．The adjacency pair

3．"A context of publicly displayed and continuously up-dated intersubjective understandings"

4．Preference

5．Structural consequences of preference organization

6．Sequence organization

7．The power of sequential analysis

Transcription systems for spoken discourse

Daniel C.O'Connell ？ Sabine Kowal

1．Transcription:Basic terminology

2．Speaking:The behavior under consideration

2.1 The verbal component

2.2 The prosodic component

2.3 The paralinguistic component

2.4 The extralinguistic component

3．Current transcription systems

3.1 Du Bois'discourse transcription(DT)

3.2 Ehlich's heuristic interpretative auditory transcription(HIAT)

3.3 The transcription system of Gumperz＆Berenz

3.4 The Jeffersonian tradition

3.5 MacWhinney's CHAT system for the CHILDES project

4．Conclusion:Basic principles for scientific use of transcription

Index