Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Situated meaning in context
6. Why a mother’s rule is not a law 11
7. Fighting words 41
8. Context and talk in confrontational discourses 67
9. Deixis in context
10. This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad 93
11. “Here is the difference, here is the passion, here is the chance to be part of great change” 115
12. Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish 147
13. Communicative action in context
14. Speech acts in context 171
15. How are speech acts situated in context? 181
16. Context: An adaptive perspective 205
17. Subject index 235
18. Author index 239