The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation.

List of contributors; Foreword by John J. Cumperz; Introduction; 1. Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margret Selting; 2. On the prosody and syntax of turn-continuations Peter Auer; 3. Ending up in Ulster: prosody and turn-taking in English dialects Bill Wells and Sue Peppé; 4. Affiliating and disaffiliating with continuers: prosodic aspects of recipiency Frank Ernst Müller; 5. Conversational phonetics: some aspects of news receipts in everyday talk John Local; 6. Prosody as an activity-type distinctive cue in conversation: the case of so-called 'astonished' questions in repair initiation Margret Selting; 7. The prosodic contextualization of moral work: an analysis of reproaches in 'why'-formats Susanne Günther; 8. On rhythm in everyday German conversation: beat clashes in assessment utterances Susanne Uhmann; 9. The prosody of repetition: on quoting and mimicry Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; 10. Working on young children's utterances: prosodic aspects of repetition during picture labelling Clare Tarplee; 11. Informings and announcements in their environment: prosody within a multi-activity work setting Marjorie Harness Goodwin; Indexes.