In this introduction, we provide the scholarly background that motivates special issue and briefly discuss its content. We touch on contemporary debates in symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology conversation analysis, anthropology inform research undertaken by contributors. conclude deriving six interrelated themes—intersection, entwinement, multimodal, contextually embedded, structured, ser...

This study presents the first sociolinguistic examination of communication in a social dilemma. 90 participants (18 groups 5) completed modified public goods game with 2 rounds: an effort-based task and unscripted online chat about results. A linear regression shows that consensus-building language Round 1 affects cooperative behaviour task. qualitative analysis 3 explores how use different rec...