1. Embodied interaction in the material world: an introduction Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron; Part I. Founding Capacities: 2. Collaborative construction of multimodal utterances Edwin Hutchins and Saeko Nomura; 3. Formal structures of practical tasks: a resource for action in the social life of very young children Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman and Mardi Kidwell; 4. Elements of formulation N. J. Enfield; 5. The changing meanings of things: found objects and inscriptions in social interaction Jürgen Streeck; 6. Choreographies of attention: multimodality in a routine family activity Eve Tulbert and Marjorie Harness Goodwin; 7. Some functions of speaker head nods Hiromi Aoki; 8. The multimodal mechanics of collaborative unit construction in Japanese conversation Shimako Iwasaki; Part II. Transformational Ecologies: 9. Creating contexts for actions: multimodal practices for managing children's conduct in the childcare classroom Siri Mehus; 10. Multilingual multimodality: communicative difficulties and their solutions in second language use Marianne Gullberg; 11. On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication disorders Ray Wilkinson, Steven Bloch and Michael Clarke; 12. Terra incognita: social interaction among blind children Sharon Avital and Jürgen Streeck; 13. Contextures of action Charles Goodwin; 14. 'A full inspiration tray': multimodality across real and virtual spaces Elizabeth Keating and Chiho Sunakawa; Part III. Professional Communities: 15. The organization of concurrent courses of action in surgical demonstrations Lorenza Mondada; 16. Pursuing a response: prodding recognition and expertise within a surgical team Alan Zemel, Timothy Koschmann and Curtis LeBaron; 17. Building stories: the embodied narration of what might come to pass Keith M. Murphy; 18. Embodied arguments: verbal claims and bodily evidence Julien C. Mirivel; 19. Facilitating tool use in the photography studio through language, gesture, and the act of comparison Scott Phillabaum; 20. Gesture and institutional interaction Christian Heath and Paul Luff; 21. Musical spaces John B. Haviland.