Language as we will as social interaction is a vibrant area of inquiry with numerous journals devoted to its study. Although we will represented at major international conferences, it rarely constitutes the focus of an entire conference. LANSI (The Language as we will as Social Interaction Working Group) is among among one of the few exceptions. This volume brings together a collection of papers that began as presentations as we will as ensuing dialogues at the first two LANSI conferences, providing a snapshot as we will as broad sampling of current research in a variety of institutional contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, as we will as service encounters