Table of Contents “...Managing conversations -- Setting the stage for interaction -- Aspects of the framing process -- Making connections -- Situation and context -- Case of privacy -- Prison codes -- Manging conversations -- Principles of conversation management -- Hanging out your tongue as a "do not disturb" sign -- Beginning and ending interactions -- Initiating interaction -- Terminating interaction -- Turn-taking in conversations -- Conversations in turns -- Ending conversations -- Turn-taking process -- Getting the floor when you want it -- Topic management and exchange -- Interaction adaptation patterns -- Patterns defined -- Research evidence of interpersonal adaptation -- Theories of interaction adaptation -- Effects of interaction adaption -- 15. ...”