Situated Order : Studies in the Social Organization of Talk and Embodied Activities

This work on conversational analysis includes coverage of topics like: two ways in which numbers are significant for talk-interaction; conversational laughter; telenegotiating as a social accomplishment; and "mm hm" tokens as interactional devices in psychotherapeutic in-take interviews.

Contents: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis; Parties and Joint Talk: Two Ways in Which Numbers are Significant for Talk-in-Interaction; Laughing at and Laughing with: Negotiations of Participant Alignments Through Conversational Laughter; Episode Trajectory in Conversational Play; Mm Hm Tokens as Interactional Devices in the Psychotherapeutic In-take Interview; Meeting Both Ends: Standardization and Recipient Design in Telephone Survey Interviews; The Distribution of Knowledge in Courtroom Interaction; Seeing Conversations: Analyzing Sign Language Talk; Multiple Mode, Single Activity: Telenegotiating as a Social Accomplishment; Assembling a Response: Setting and Collaboratively Constructed Work Talk; A Technology of Order Production: Computer-Aided Dispatch in Public Safety Communication; The Mundane Work of Writing and Reading Computer Programs. Contributors: Steven E. Clayman, Douglas W. Maynard, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Phillip J. Glenn, Robert Hopper, Marek Czyzewski, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, Martha L. Komter, Paul McIlvenny, Alan Firth, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Jack Whalen, Graham Button, Wes Sharrock, Paul ten Have, and George Psathas. Co-published with the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.