Part I. Introduction: 1. Methods in conversation analysis Chase Wesley Raymond, Rebecca Clift, Kobin H. Kendrick and Jeffrey D. Robinson; Part II. Points of Departure: 2. Conversation-analytic methods of data collection Elliott M. Hoey and Joseph C. Webb; 3. Collecting interaction data in the 'lab' versus the 'field': rationale, ramifications, and recommendations Jeffrey D. Robinson; 4. Working with data I: field recordings Saul Albert and Emily Hofstetter; 5. Multimodal transcription as process and analysis: capturing the audible and visible Florence Oloff and Alexa Hepburn; 6. Discovering a candidate phenomenon Rebecca Clift and Jenny Mandelbaum; 7. Data Sessions Emma Betz; Part III. Collections: 8. Working with collections in conversation analysis Steven E. Clayman; 9. Working with data II: clips and collections Emily Hofstetter and Saul Albert; 10. History of a collection: repetition repairs Traci Walker; 11. Developing a collection: apologies Paul Drew; 12. Developing a collection: coordination of embodied conduct with darf/kann ich X? 'may/can I...?' in German Arnulf Deppermann and Alexandra Gubina; Part IV. Evidence: 13. Evidencing conversation-analytic claims: how participants orient to social action Chase Wesley Raymond and Jeffrey D. Robinson; 14. Evidence for claims about interactants' sense-making processes Anita M. Pomerantz; 15. Conversation analysis as a comparative methodology Paul Drew, Ana Cristina Ostermann and Chase Wesley Raymond; 16. The epistemics of epistemics: validating claims about epistemic stance in conversation analysis John Heritage; 17. Coding and statistically associating inter-action to advance conversation-analytic findings Jeffrey D. Robinson; Part V. Avenues into Action: 18. Single-case analysis Aug Nishizaka; 19. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and the study of interaction in everyday life Douglas W. Maynard and Virginia Teas Gill; 20. Analyzing categorial phenomena in talk-in-interaction Kevin A. Whitehead, Geoffrey Raymond and Elizabeth Stokoe; 21. Where the action is: positioning matters in interaction Danielle Pillet-Shore; 22. Analyzing particles Galina B. Bolden; 23. Analyzing grammar in social interaction Barbara Fox, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Barbara A. Fox, Chase Wesley Raymond, Marja-Leena Sorjonen and Sandra A. Thompson; 24. Listening to talk-in-interaction: ways of observing speech Richard Ogden; 25. Multimodality in conversation analysis Lorenza Mondada; 26. System-oriented analysis: moving from singular practices to organizations of practice Kobin H. Kendrick; 27. Comparing across languages and cultures Makoto Hayashi and Stephanie Hyeri Kim; 28. Methodological considerations when using conversation analysis to investigate institutional interaction Merran Toerien; 29. Methods for 'applying' conversation analysis Rebecca K. Barnes; 30. Using conversation analytic research methods in the study of atypical populations Ray Wilkinson; Part VI. Situating and Reporting Findings: 31. CA across disciplines: connecting and engaging through publishing Rebecca Clift, Rod Gardner, Rose McCabe, Anssi Peräkylä and Jonathan Potter; 32. What do journal editors look for in publishing CA work? Charles Antaki, Leelo Keevallik and Elwys de Stefani; 33. Communicating findings to non-CA professionals Chloe Shaw; Part VII. Looking Forward: 34. Opening up avenues into action: future directions in conversation analysis Kobin H. Kendrick, Rebecca Clift, Chase Wesley Raymond and Jeffrey D. Robinson; Appendices: Appendix 1. Jeffersonian transcription conventions Rebecca Clift, Kobin H. Kendrick, Chase Wesley Raymond and Jeffrey D. Robinson; Appendix 2. Multimodal transcription conventions Lorenza Mondada.