Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.

1. Rethinking Context: an introduction Charles Goodwin, and Alessandro Duranti 2. The indexical ground of Deictic Reference William F. Hanks 3. Language in context and language as context: the Samoan respect vocabulary Alessandro Duranti 4. Context contests: debatable truth statements on Tanna (Vanuatu) Lamont Lindstrom 5. Contextualization, tradition, and the dialogue of contexts: Icelandic Legends of the Kraftaskald Richard Bauman 6. Assessments and the construction of context Charles Goodwin, and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 7. In another context Emanuel A. Schegloff 8. Contextualization and understanding John Gumperz 9. Contextualization in Kalapalo narratives Ellen Basso 10. Radio talk-show therapy and the pragmatics of possible worlds Frank Gaik 11. The interpenetration of communicative contexts: examples from medical encounters Aaron Cicourel 12. The routinization of repair in courtroom discourse Susan U. Philips 13. The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaction Adam Kendon 14. Indexing gender Elinor Ochs.