I-IV -- General Editors Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Theoretical Perspectives -- A Human Ethological Approach to Communication: Ideas in Transit Around the Cartesian Impasse -- Human Linguistics and Face-to-Face Interaction -- Models and Epistemologies in the Study of Interaction -- PART TWO: Methodological Studies -- When Infant and Adult Communicate How Do They Synchronize Their Behaviors? -- Tonic Aspects of Behavior in Interaction -- Facial Expression Dialect: An Example -- PART THREE: Organization of Behavior in Social Encounters -- Micro-Territories in Human Interaction -- One Function of Proxemic Shifts in Face-to-Face Interaction -- Coverbal Behavior Associated with Conversation Turns -- Interaction Units during Speaking Turns in Dyadic, Face-to-Face Conversations -- Communicative Functions of Phatic Communion -- PART FOUR: Behavior in Interaction and Linguistic Theory -- The Correlation of Gestures and Verbalizations in First Language Acquisition -- Paralanguage, Communication, and Cognition -- Linguistic and Paralinguistic Interchange -- Cross-Cultural Study of Paralinguistic Alternants in Face-to-Face Interaction -- Face-to-Face Interaction: Signs to Language -- Problems and Methods of Psycholinguistics in Face-to-Face Communication -- PART FIVE: Interaction, Social Relationships, and Social Structure -- Territoriality and the Spatial Regulation of Interaction -- Expressive Interaction and Social Structure: Play and an Emergent Game Form in an Israeli Social Setting -- Interactions and the Control of Behavior -- PART SIX: Cultural Differences in Communicational Behavior -- Communicative Styles in Two Cultures: Japan and the United States -- Culture-Style Factors in Face-to-Face Interaction -- Postscripts -- Domains of Definition in Interaction: Postscript to Expressive Interaction and Social Structure -- Afterthoughts -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects