Units of Talk - Units of Action

1. The question of units for language, action and interaction (by Szczepek Reed, Beatrice); 2. Part I. Units of language revisited; 3. Units and/or Action Trajectories?: The language of grammatical categories and the language of social action (by Ford, Cecilia E.); 4. The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building: Processes and resources (by Linell, Per); 5. From "intonation units" to cesuring - an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction (by Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar); 6. Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners (by Barnwell, Brendan); 7. Part II. Units of action and interaction; 8. At the intersection of turn and sequence organization: On the relevance of "slots" in type-conforming responses to polar interrogatives. (by Raymond, Geoffrey); 9. When 'yes' is not enough - as an answer to a yes/no question (by Steensig, Jakob); 10. Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction: Local organization at a finer level of granularity (by Iwasaki, Shimako); 11. Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions (by Ogden, Richard); 12. Building an instructional project: Actions as components of music masterclasses (by Reed, Darren); 13. Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction (by Li, Xiaoting); 14. Index