Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Transcript notation

pp ix-xvi

1 - Introduction

pp 1-16

PART I - ORIENTATIONS

pp 17-20

2 - Notes on methodology

pp 21-27

3 - On some questions and ambiguities in conversation

pp 28-52

PART II - PREFERENCE ORGANIZATION

pp 53-56

4 - Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes

pp 57-101

5 - Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals dealing with potential or actual rejection

pp 102-128

6 - Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences

pp 129-151

7 - Pursuing a response

pp 152-164

PART III - TOPIC ORGANIZATION

pp 165-166

8 - Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors

pp 167-190

9 - On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters

pp 191-222

PART IV - THE INTEGRATION OF TALK WITH NONVOCAL ACTIVITIES

pp 223-224

10 - Notes on story structure and the organization of participation

pp 225-246

11 - Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement

pp 247-265

12 - On some gestures' relation to talk

pp 266-296

PART V - ASPECTS OF RESPONSE

pp 297-298

13 - A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement

pp 299-345

14 - On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles

pp 346-369

15 - Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause

pp 370-410

PART VI - EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AS SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA

pp 411-412

16 - On doing “being ordinary”

pp 413-429

References

pp 430-440

Index of names

pp 441-443

Subject index

pp 444-446