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This interdisciplinary course brings together the methods and findings of interactional linguistics and those of conversation analysis in a dialogue centering on the visible behavior of the body in the organization of talk-in-interaction. The main aim will be to find ways to describe, account for, or at least come to terms with, the relationship between various sorts of visible and vocal conduct – especially gesture, gaze, body movement, and prosody – and everyday language use. A primary goal would thus be the formulations of new understandings of the ways in which spoken language, including "grammar" and "meaning", is intertwined with gesture, gaze, and body movements in face-to-face naturally-occurring interactions.