Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Dialogical Grammar and Spoken Interaction -- On Some Principles of a Dialogical Grammar -- What do Linguistic Descriptions have to say about Discourse? -- Chapter 2: Misunderstanding as a Dialogical Phenomenon -- Misunderstanding - A Dialogic Problem -- Infelicitous Communication or Degrees of Misunderstanding? -- Understanding Misunderstanding: Kafka's The Trial -- Modal Competence and Misunderstandings in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Misunderstandings at Work -- Do Italians 'Prefer' Disagreeing? Some Interactional Features of Disputational Talk in Italian Multi-Party Family Interaction -- The Logical Structure of Dialogue and the Representation of Emotions: An Example from Hitchcock's Notorious -- "He hired who?": Problems in Reference Assignments in Conversations -- Chapter 3: Signposting in the Dialogue -- The Discourse Marker so in Native and Non-native Discourse -- Subjective and Objective Grounding in Discourse Markers: A Cross-linguistic Corpus-driven Approach -- Chapter 4: Exploring Dialogue in Academic Discourse -- Talking Academic: A Corpus Approach to Academic Speech -- Topic Progression in Science Interviews -- Pragmatic Implications of the Use of we as a Receiver-including and Receiver-excluding Pronoun -- Chapter 5: Dialogue and Multilingual or Multicultural Schools -- Dialogues and Exclusion in Multicultural Schools -- Content and Language Integrated Learning: Interactions in Bilingual Classrooms -- Chapter 6: Focus Group Discussions -- Virtual Participants as Communicative Resources in Discussions on Gene Technology -- Exploring Focus Groups: Analysing Focus Group Data about Genetically Modified Food -- Chapter 7: Dialogue Analysis and Corpora -- Possibilities and Limitations of Corpus Linguistics