Approaches to Slavic Interaction

1. Contributors; 2. Introduction and overview (by Thielemann, Nadine); 3. Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction; 4. Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversation (by Grenoble, Lenore A.); 5. Reanimating responsibility: The wez-V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish interaction (by Zinken, Jorg); 6. Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation (by Grishina, Elena); 7. Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows (by Laitinen, Hanna); 8. Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction; 9. Russian everyday utterances: The top lists and some statistics (by Sherstinova, Tatjana); 10. Speech rate as reflection of speaker's social characteristics (by Stepanova, Svetlana); 11. Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction; 12. How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian (by Richter, Nicole); 13. 'This is how I see it': No prefacing in Polish (by Weidner, Matylda); 14. How can I lie if I am telling the truth?: The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality (by Kosta, Peter); 15. Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction - From (im)politeness to humor; 16. Irony in the face(s) of politeness: Strategic use of verbal irony in Czech political TV debates (by Mazara, Jekaterina); 17. Parliamentary communication: The case of the Russian Gosduma (by Weiss, Daniel); 18. Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis (by Furman, Michael); 19. Humor as staging an utterance (by Thielemann, Nadine); 20. Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families; 21. Bilingual language use in the family environment: Evidence from a telephone conversation between members of a community of speakers of German descent (by Ries, Veronika); 22. Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading?: Linguistic strategies and language negotiation in Russian-French speaking families in Switzerland (by Pitton, Liliane Meyer); 23. Index