Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Dialogic Action Game -- Factoring out Exchange: Types of Structure -- Towards a Simple Schema of Speech Moves -- Exploring Contemporary Method Through Historical Data: Pragma-Discoursal Dialogue Annotation -- Dialogue and Inter-Subjectivity: Reinterpreting the Semantics of Modality and Hedging -- Talking for a Living on Air -- Interjections and the Institutionally of Broadcast Talk -- Negotiating Defeat in TV Election Night Coverage -- Televised Talk: Face Work, Politeness and Laughter in The Mrs Merton Show -- "Listen to this one...": Teachers Sharing Stories and Shaping Policies -- Investigating Interactional Variation in Interview-Type Speaking Tests -- Question and Answer Sequencing in Academic Lectures -- Agenda Negotiation in Emergency Calls: Modelling the Dynamics of Frictional Encounters -- On Some Features of Conversation in Maritime VHF Communication -- Getting Things Done and Getting Along in the Office -- Les Réunions en Contexte Institutionnel et Leur Formalité -- Working on the Telephone - How Telephone Receptionists Work with Language -- "It's not really time for going home": Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Learning to Talk on the Telephone -- Les Voix du Dialogue: Usage de la 'Communication Facilitée' avec des Enfants Présentant des Troubles Autistiques -- Therapist-Child Dialogues in Clinical Interviews -- Understanding Paragrammatism: Contributions from Conversation Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics -- Listening to Narratives in Psychiatric Interviews -- Diminutives in Discourse: Sequential Aspects of Diminutive Use in Spoken Interaction -- Trading Talk? Interaction in Written Dating Advertisements -- Code-Switching and Dialogism in Lolita -- 'Suffering is Good for the Soul': Dialogue and Ideology in Traditional Juvenile Fiction -- Wordplay and Nonsense in Polish Translations of Dialogues in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Verbal Humour as the Ultimate Level in Language Learning: Accessing the Contextual Properties of Humour in Everyday Conversation -- Talk in the Mind: Scripted Dialogues and Mental Scripts -- Lexical Norms in Spoken English -- Naturally-Occurring and Artefactual Dialogue -- Multiple Voices: Monologue and Dialogue in the OJ Simpson Criminal Courtroom -- Suppressed Dialogue in a Confession Statement -- Hidden Dialogicality: When Infelicity Becomes Fear of Infringement -- List of Contributors