Nadine Thielemann is a professor of Slavic linguistics at Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is interested in the linguistics and pragmatics of talk-in-interaction, political discourse and multilingualism at the workplace.Nicole Richter is a professor of Multicultural Communication (Slavonic and English Linguistics) at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and at Collegium Polonicum, mainly interested in contrastive phonetics and prosody.

• Olga Blinova: Imperative Utterances in Russian Dialogue – Nina Bodganova-Beglarian: On the Resolution of Hesitation Phenomena – Lenore Grenoble: Multimodality and Interactional Grammar in Russian Conversation – Peter Kosta: Third Position Repair, Overlaps, and Code-Switching – Beatrix Kreß: Relational Work in Conversation – Elena Markasova: The Grammar of Verbal Domination – Ludger Paschen: On Clicks in Russian Everyday Communication – Nicole Richter: How Questions Can Affect Replies – Christian Sappok: Addressing by Voice – Tatiana Sherstinova: Studying Linguistic Variation and Communicative Diversity – Nadine Thielemann: Constructional Patterns Emerging in Talk-In-Interaction