Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential directions for future research. It will therefore be of major interest to everyone studying spoken interaction. The collection brings together an impressive range of internationally renowned scholars from different, yet closely related and compatible research traditions which have made a significant contribution to the field. They cover issues such as the units of language, the contextualization of actions and activities, conversational modalities and genres, the display of affect and emotion, the multimodality of interaction, language acquisition and aphasia. All contributions are based on empirical, audio- and/or video-recorded data of natural talk-in-interaction, including languages such as English, German and Japanese. The methodologies employed come from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.

Table of contents Foreword ix–x Preface xi–xviii List of contributors xix–xxii Introduction: Prosody in interaction: State of the art Margret Selting 3–40 Contributors [See web site for article titles]: Arnulf Deppermann 41–48 Gareth Walker 51–72 Susanne Günthner 73–80 Richard Ogden 81–104 Auli Hakulinen 105–108 Geoffrey Raymond 109–130 John Local, Peter Auer and Paul Drew 131–160 Harrie Mazeland and Leendert Plug 161–188 Beatrice Szczepek Reed 191–212 Jan Anward 213–216 Friederike Kern 217–238 Johannes Wagner 239–242 Bill Wells 243–262 Traci Walker 263–266 Elisabeth Gülich and Katrin Lindemann 269–294 Elisabeth Reber 295–302 Hiroko Tanaka 303–332 Dagmar Barth-Weingarten 333–338 Cecilia E. Ford and Barbara A. Fox 339–368 Karin Birkner 369–372 Charles Goodwin 373–394 Helga Kotthoff 395–400 Author index 401–402 Subject index 403–406

“With contributions from some of our most prominent scholars, Prosody in Interaction honors one of the primary originators of this CA-inspired line of work by offering revealing accounts of the place of prosody in action. There can be no question that prosody plays an indispensable role in producing action in talk-in-interaction, and the contributions to this volume furnish solid empirical evidence of just what roles it plays across languages and circumstances. Accompanying commentaries to most of the contributions give added depth to the volume.” Gene H. Lerner, UC Santa Barbara

“This wonderful collection of papers contributes to the already longstanding tradition of studies on prosody in interactional linguistics. It pays a significant tribute to the outstanding work done by Elisabeth Couper-Kuhlen who has radically contributed to our understanding of the role of prosody in interaction." Lorenza Mondada, University of Lyon