Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

This book makes available five classic studies of behaviour in face-to-face interaction. It also includes a new chapter especially written for this book, discussing the historical development of the theoretical framework of these studies, and a final chapter dealing with the organisation of attention in interaction. The five papers reprinted here, although well known, have hitherto been hard to obtain. Their re-publication will be warmly welcomed by all students and teachers who are concerned with face-to-face interaction, in social psychology, interpersonal communication, sociolinguistics and ethnography of communication.This book makes available five classic studies of behaviour in face-to-face interaction. It also includes a new chapter especially written for this book, discussing the historical development of the theoretical framework of these studies, and a final chapter dealing with the organisation of attention in interaction. The five papers reprinted here, although well known, have hitherto been hard to obtain. Their re-publication will be warmly welcomed by all students and teachers who are concerned with face-to-face interaction, in social psychology, interpersonal communication, sociolinguistics and ethnography of communication.Adam Kendon is the author of 'Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521380362 and ISBN 0521380367.