JANET COTTERILL Lecturer in Language and Communication, Cardiff UniversityCHARLES GOODWIN Professor of Applied Linguistics, UCLACHRISTIAN HEATH Professor in the Management Centre, King's College LondonJON HINDMARSH Research Fellow, King's College LondonADAM JAWORSKI Senior Lecturer, Cardiff UniversityDEBORAH LUPTON Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Charles Sturt UniversityULRIKE HANNA MEINHOF Chair of Cultural Studies, University of BradfordALAN RADLEY Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityJOHN TULLOCH Professor of Media Communication, Cardiff UniversityMARIAN TULLOCH Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Charles Sturt UniversityKATHLEEN WOODWARD Professor of English and Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; J.Coupland & R.Gwyn PART I: THE BODY AS AN INTERACTIONAL RESOURCE The Body in Action; C.Goodwin Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction; J.Hindmarsh & C.Heath Flirting; A.Radley PART II: IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY Ageing Bodies, Aged by Culture; M.Hepworth Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk; M.Tulloch & J.Tulloch Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skin Care Product Marketing; J.Coupland Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme; A.Jaworski Bodies Exposed: A Cross-Cultural Semiotic Comparison of Saunas; U.Meinhof PART III: THE BODY, PATHOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELFHOOD Processes of Re-figuration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives; R.Gwyn The Statistical Body; K.Woodward 'I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerized Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self; D.Lupton