Handbook of pragmatics hightlights, 4, The pragmatics of interaction

The Pragmatics of Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Preface to the series; Acknowledgements; The pragmatics of interaction: A survey; Communicative style; Conversation Analysis; Conversation types; Ethnomethodology; Erving Goffman; Interactional linguistics; Listener response; Participation; Politeness; Prosody; Reported speech; Harvey Sacks; Sequence; Transcription systems for spoken discourse; Index; The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or discursive angles, this fourth volume is dedicated to the empirical investigation of the way human beings organize their interaction in natural environments and how they use talk for accomplishing actions and their contexts. Starting from Goffman's observation that interaction exhibits