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Introduction: a multimodal approach to Chinese interaction / Xiaoting Li, Tsuyoshi Ono -- Multimodality and the study of Chinese talk-in-interaction / Sandra A. Thompson -- Researching multimodality in Chinese interaction: a methodological account / Xiaoting Li -- List gestures in Mandarin conversation and their implications for understanding multimodal interaction / Hongyin Tao -- Hand gestures and emergent speakership: a study of turn-competition and gesticulation in Cantonese conversation / K.K. Luke and Xiaoling He -- Grounding and gestural repetition in Chinese conversational interaction / Kawai Chui -- Embodying stance: wo juede I feel/think and gaze / Tomoko Endo -- Multimodal turn construction in Mandarin conversationverbal, vocal, and visual practices in the construction of syntactically incomplete turns / Xiaoting Li -- On co-operative modalities in the formulation of Mandarin Chinese turn-continuations / Ni-Eng Lim -- Self-repair in Mandarin Chinese: the multimodality of conversation / Liang Tao -- A multimodal analysis of tag questions in Mandarin Chinese multi-party conversation -- I-Ni tsai