Features the contributions that come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis. This title presents the interactional approaches to discourse showing that there are several discourses on interaction: interconnected, parallel, varying and divergent.

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Discourse and the interactional turn (by Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa); 3. Part 1. Dialogues between contexts; 4. Contexts in context: Micro meets macro (by Fetzer, Anita); 5. Communicative activity types as organisations in discourses and discourses in organisations (by Linell, Per); 6. Discourse and context in a historical perspective: On courtroom interaction in Salem, 1692 (by Hiltunen, Risto); 7. Part 2. Constructing identity across genres; 8. Pronominal choice in French conversational interaction: Indices of national identity in identity acts (by Waugh, Linda R.); 9. Constructing interpersonal relations in the discourse of Russian media (by Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta); 10. Who communicates in the media supported by the Russian Church? (by Siilin, Lea); 11. "O England! England! She says - my Father - my Sisters - my friends! - shall I ever see you more?": Reporting in 18th-century correspondence (by Nevala, Minna); 12. Part 3. Managing interpersonal relations; 13. Power in Early Modern English courtroom discourse (by Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara); 14. "I desire to have some tyme to consider of it": A pragmaphilological approach to refusals and refutations in Modern-English trials (by Martinez-Insua, Ana E.); 15. Interactive aspects of computer-mediated communication: 'Disagreement' in an English and a German public news group (by Kleinke, Sonja); 16. 'A little story, for food for thought...': Narratives in advice discourse (by Lindholm, Loukia); 17. Part 4. Structures in interaction; 18. Appropriateness in interpersonal communication (by Sivenkova, Maria); 19. Filling the German vorfeld in written and spoken discourse (by Speyer, Augustin); 20. Phatic expressions in French and German telephone conversations (by Smith, Anja); 21. Index