ABSTRACT
Let us consider the everyday world of face-to-face encounters. Commonplace activities in these encounters—greeting, discussing, joking, bargaining, directing, commiserating, getting acquainted, promising, rebuffing, and the like—make up the fabric of an individual's social world. In this monograph we shall be concerned with research on face-to-face interaction. In the course of our discussion we shall propose a research model for identifying various types of regularities in face-to-face interaction, and we shall outline a conceptual framework for interpreting these regularities.
