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Contents

Introduction TOPIC ORGANIZATION Topic Drift Communication and Mutual Engagement SEQUENTIAL ORGANIZATION On the Organization of Sequences as a Source of Coherence in Talk-in-Interaction The Politics of Intimacy: A Dialogical Analysis of Being Intimate in a Psychology Experiment FORMATTING The Role of Routines in the Evolution of Children's Peer Talk A Dialogized Version of Piaget's Theory of Egocentric Speech SOCIOCULTURAL VARIATION Gender Differences in Conversational Coherence: Physical Alignment and Topical Cohesion The Social Construction of Discourse Coherence in a Family Dinner Table Conversation Parents and Their Children at Talk Author Index Subject Index

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