1 Framing, grounding and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space Mardi Kidwell University of New Hampshire To Appear in: Body – Language – Communication; Linguistics and Communication Sciences: An International Handbook. A. Cienki, E. Fricke, D. McNeill, C. Müller (Eds.). Amsterdam: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. This chapter examines several forms of embodied behavior in interaction. After discussing the historical emergence of an interactionist approach to the topic from early figures in American anthropology, to the Palo Alto group, to present day conversation analysts, the chapter considers research on body posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space for their distinct contributions to the moment‐ by‐moment production and management of conversational interaction. Then, the chapter examines the interplay of these particular forms of embodied behavior in recurrent interactional activities, using as examples openings and storytelling. As is demonstrated through these examples, the variety of embodied behaviors that participants make use of in interaction is part of an extraordinarily powerful yet nuanced toolkit for differentiating their work as particular sorts of participants (i.e., as speaker and recipient, storyteller and story recipient, doctor and patient, etc.), and in the particular sorts of interactional, interpersonal, and institutional business that comprises encounters. Current Word Count: 6378 The framing, grounding, and coordination of conversational interaction is a nuanced and complex enterprise, one that is made possible in large part by the relative flexibility of the human body. The head, eyes, mouth, face, torso, legs, arms, hands, fingers, and even the feet comprise moveable elements of the human body that can be arranged and mobilized in conjunction with talk in a potentially limitless