Dedications List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Overview 1. Introduction to Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Human Spoken Interaction in a Superdiverse World 1.3 Complex Dynamic Systems Theory 1.4 The Study Context 1.5 The Participants and Corpus 1.6 Rationale for the Corpus 1.

7 Purpose and Overview of the Book 2. L2 Interaction: Word Searches, Development and CDST 2.1 Word Search Sequences 2.2 Patterns of Word Search Sequences 2.3 Developmental Studies on Interactional Competence 2.4 Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Interaction 2.5 Summary and Research Gap 3. Mirroring Methodology 3.

1 Introduction 3.2 Basic Principles and Procedures of Conversation Analysis 3.3 Basic Interactional Mechanisms 3.4 Socially Distributed Cognition, Information Exchange and Topic Development 3.5 Adapting CA Methodology to Social and Institutional Goals 3.6 The Relationship between CA and CDST 4. Patterns of Word Search Sequences at the Group Level 4.1 Introduction 4.

2 Word Search Initiations 4.3 Candidate Solution of Word Searches 4.4 Responses to Candidate Solutions 4.5 Summary and Discussion 5. Longitudinal Changes in Word Search Sequences 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Quantified Changes in the Participants over Time 5.3 Ami's Case 5.

4 Maya's Case 5.5 Yoko's Case 5.6 Tomoko's Case 5.7 Discussion: Variation and Patterns of Change 6. Seeing Human Spoken Interaction as a Complex Adaptive System 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Matching the Ten CDST Principles to Findings from the Data Analyses 6.3 How Do All the Components Combine in Spoken Interaction? 6.

4 Chapter Summary and Conclusions 7. Conclusions and Implications 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Summary of Findings 7.3 Methodological Issues 7.4 Implications 7.5 Limitations and Directions for Future Research Appendix 1: Recordings of Participants Appendix 2: Transcription Conventions References Index.