Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Past and future -- Substance -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction to sequence organization -- Capsule review 1: turns -- Capsule review 2: actions -- 2 The adjacency pair as the unit for sequence construction -- Adjacency, nextness, contiguity, progressivity -- Alternative second pair parts -- Counters -- Relevance rules and negative observations -- Upshot -- 3 Minimal, two-turn adjacency pair sequences -- 4 Pre-expansion -- Pre-invitation -- Pre-offer -- Pre-announcement and other pre-telling -- A different kind of type-specific pre-sequence: the pre-pre -- Generic pre-sequence: the summons-answer sequence -- Multiple pre-expansions -- 5 The organization of preference/dispreference -- Preferred and dispreferred responses: the terms -- Preferred and dispreferred responses: the practices and features -- Mitigation -- Elaboration -- Default -- Positioning -- Multiple preferences -- Type conformity -- Summary remarks on preferred and dispreferred second pair parts -- Preferred and dispreferred first pair parts -- 6 Insert expansion -- Post-first insert expansion -- Capsule review 3: repair -- Pre-second insert expansion -- Expansion of expansions -- The extent of expansions -- 7 Post-expansion -- Minimal post-expansion: sequence-closing thirds -- "Oh" -- "Okay" -- Assessment -- Composites -- Post-completion musings, or postmortems -- Non-minimal post-expansion -- Other-initiated repair -- Disagreement-implicated other-initiated repair -- Topicalization -- Rejecting/challenging/disagreeing with the second pair part -- First pair part reworkings post-expansion -- 8 Topic-proffering sequences: a distinctive adjacency pair sequence structure -- 9 Sequence-closing sequences -- Unilateral and foreshortened sequence endings -- Dedicated sequence-closing sequences.

10 Sequences of sequences -- Reciprocal or exchange sequences -- Action-type sequence series -- Successive parts of a course of action -- Other relations between sequences of sequences: multi-part tellings -- 11 Retro-sequences -- 12 Some variations in sequence organization -- Sequence-closing thirds -- Distinctive sequence and expansion types -- Preference organization -- 13 Sequence as practice -- Non-canonical forms -- Incidental sequences -- Interactional projects, thematic threads, committed lines, etc. -- Sequence as practice: the bottom line -- 14 Summary and Applications -- How to use this book, part 1 -- How to use this book, part 2 -- Re-beginning -- Appendix 1: Conversation-analytic transcript symbols -- Temporal and sequential relationships -- Other markings -- Appendix 2: Transcript of a telephone call -- TG -- References -- Index.

The first volume in an authoritative series by Emanuel Schegloff on Conversation Analysis.

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