Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Focus groups 9
7. Part 1. Sociocultural organization in multimodal action
8. Chapter 2. They thought we were a hick town 23
9. Chapter 3. We’re doin this here now 47
10. Part 2. Multimodal rituals of stance and positioning
11. Chapter 4. Struck by speech 71
12. Chapter 5. Interactional positioning 91
13. Chapter 6. Poetic positioning and multimodal hypotheticals 109
14. Part 3. Interactional troubles and contextualization cues
15. Chapter 7. When the dust cleared up 135
16. Chapter 8. We have four hundred and seventy six neighborhood watches 151
17. Conclusion 169
18. Appendix. Data-methodology 175
19. Transcription conventions used 177
20. References 179
21. Index 189