Action Formation and Ascription

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Background: Language As Action in Sociology and Other Disciplines Granularity of Action Description Sequence Organization and Action Ascription Action Formation and Turn Design Action Formatting vs. Content-Defined Practices Multiple Actions in One Turn Actions vs. Projects Action Types: Issues of Level and Inventory - Granularity Revisited Cross-Cultural Regularities in Action Types and the Productivity of Activity Types Action Streams and the Nonverbal Bringing It All Together: the Distributed Nature of Action Coding Future Directions