Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- Bridging the Atlantic -- PART I: DIALOGUE AS TEXT -- Gathering Common Ground on the Negotiated Topic: The Role of the Contrastive Markers of Italian -- Dialogue Analysis in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective -- A Comparative Analysis of Small Talk in English and Polish -- Modality and Conversational Structure in French -- PART II: DIALOGUE AS INTERACTION -- The Principles of Dialogue Grammar -- Validity Claims in Context: Monologue Meets Dialogue -- Dialogue Theory - A Sociosemiotic Approach: On the Pragmatics of Literary Communication -- On the Explicitness of Themes in Dialogue -- A Subjectivity Formation Model for Dialogue Analysis in Drama -- PART III: DIALOGUE AS DISCOURSE -- Grounded Theory and its Benefits for Dialogue Analysis: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship -- And Now for Your Moment of Zen: A Multi-modal Discourse Analysis of Humor in "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" -- Audiovisual Dialectology: Methodology and Theoretical Considerations -- The Production of Difference in Interaction: On Culturing Conversation through Play -- Sequential Analysis in an Ethnomethodological Key: Order without Theory -- The Use of a Functional Dialogic Model of Verbal Interaction to Compare how Daycare Workers and Teachers Scaffold 3-year-old Children -- Teacher and Preschool-Level Pupils' Dialogue around a Cartesian. Table: Categorizations, Accentuations and Emergence of Routines