Over the last fifty years a range of perspectives have developed that collectively represent the thriving international and interdisciplinary field of Language and Social Interaction. This field examines the role of language, along with other paraverbal phenomena, in performing social actions and constructing social and interpersonal relationships. This collection brings together for the first time classic studies and more recent investigations using key approaches such as pragmatics, speech act theory, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Volumes 1 and 2 focus on the main methodological traditions, while Volumes 3 and 4 illustrate questions of the application of methods. Volume 1: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics Volume 2: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Volume 3: Language, Interaction and Social Variables Volume 4: Embodiment, Modality and Mediation