In this article, we examine methods that participants use to resolve troubles in the realization
of practical courses of action. The concept of recruitment is developed to encompass the …

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English
speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show …

Using cases of misalignment and realignment in the unfolding of interactional sequences in
which future actions and events are being negotiated in everyday English conversation, this …

This engaging text explores how everyday talk--the ordinary kinds of communicating that
people do in schools, workplaces, and among family and friends--expresses who we are …

In individual psychotherapy verbal communication and movement synchronization are
closely interrelated. The microanalysis of timing, rhythm and gestalt of movement has …

In the context of parent–child interaction we examine the syntactic, prosodic and embodied
shape of directive response sequences used to launch, choreograph, monitor, and stall the …

This article navigates the findings of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and
related multimodal studies to summarize what we know about the grammar-body interface. It …

Adults sometimes accompany the directives they issue to children about their actions and
movements with bodily contact (for example, shoving, guiding, or pushing). This article …

What do people do with sniffs, lip-smacks, grunts, moans, sighs, whistles, and clicks, where
these are not part of their language's phonetic inventory? They use them, we shall show, as …

This article analyzes how the human body serves as a resource for other-initiation of repair.
It describes how a hand gesture, a cupped hand behind the ear, is oriented to as a repair …