Charles Goodwin, Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, has received honorary doctorates from universities in Sweden and Denmark, and is the author of 'Professional Vision', the most cited article published to date in the American Anthropologist.
1. Introduction
Part I. Co-operative Accumulative Action: 2. Co-operative accumulation as a pervasive feature of the organization of action
3. The co-operative organization of emerging action
4. Chil and his resources
5. Building complex meaning and action with a three word vocabulary: inhabiting and reshaping the actions of others through accumulative transformation
6. The distributed speaker
Part II. Intertwined Semiosis: 7. Intertwined knowing
8. Building action by combining different kinds of materials
9. Intertwined actors
10. Projection and the interactive organization of unfolding experience
11. Projecting upcoming events to accomplish co-operative action
Part III. Embodied Interaction: 12. Action and co-operative embodiment in girls' hopscotch
13. Practices of color classification
14. Creating professional vision co-operatively
15. Environmentally coupled gestures
Part IV. Co-operative Action with Predecessors: Sedimented Landscapes for Knowledge and Action: 16. Co-operative action with predecessors
17. The accumulation of diversity through co-operative action
18. Seeing in depth
19. Co-operative action as the source of, and solution to, the task faced by every community of creating new, culturally competent members with specific forms of knowledge and skill
Part V. Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants: 20. The emergence of conventionalized signs within the natural world
21. Calibrating experience and knowledge by touching the world
22. The blackness of black: color categories as situated practice
23. Environmentally coupled gestures and the social calibration of professional vision
24. Professional vision
25. Conclusion.
