Frontmatter -- PART I. Language and Nonverbal Behavior as Organizers of Social Systems -- Language and Nonverbal Behavior as Organizers of Social Systems -- PART II. The Suprasegmentals of Interaction -- Accents that Determine Stress -- The Relation of Interactional Synchrony to Cognitive and Emotional Processes -- The Rhythmic Basis of Interactional Micro- Synchrony -- Proto-Rhythms: Nonverbal to Language and Musical Acquisition -- A Method for Film Analysis of Ethnic Communication Style -- Chronemics and the Verbal-Nonverbal Interface -- The Role of Rhythm in 'Cementing' Meaning in Piman Songs -- PART III. Organization of Language and Nonverbal Behavior -- Some Notes on Analyzing Data on Face-to-Face Interaction -- Requesting, Giving, and Taking: The Relationship Between Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in the Speech Community of the Eipo, Irian Jaya (West New Guinea) -- Preverbal Communication and Linguistic Evolution -- Interruptions of Continuity and Other Features Characteristic of Spontaneous Talk -- The Nonverbal Context of Verbal Listener Responses -- Gesticulation and Speech: Two Aspects of the Process of Utterance -- Things and Words -- PART IV. Acquisition of Communicative Behavior -- The Infant's Communicative Competencies and the Achievement of Intersubjectivity -- 'Acquisition' of Communication Competence: Is Language Enough? -- Silence is Golden? The Changing Role of Non-Talk in Preschool Conversations -- PART V Theoretical Approaches to Human Interaction -- Dionysians and Apollonians -- The Analogy of Linguistics with Chemistry -- Why Electromagnetism Is the Only Causal 'Spook' Required to Explain Completely Any Human Behavior or Institution -- Bibliography -- Index