The question of units for language, action and interaction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. The question of units for language, action and interaction 1
4. Part I. Units of language revisited
5. Units and/or Action Trajectories? 13
6. The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building 57
7. From “intonation units” to cesuring – an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction 91
8. Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners 125
9. Part II. Units of action and interaction
10. At the intersection of turn and sequence organization 169
11. When ‘yes’ is not enough – as an answer to a yes/no question 207
12. Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction 243
13. Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions 277
14. Building an instructional project 313
15. Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction 343
16. Index 377