Johanna Rendle-Short is a lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at The Australian National University, Australia.

'The book provides a meticulous dissection of the situated talk we recognize and respond to in the academic seminar, showing how that recognition and response occur and how being an academic seminar presenter is accomplished.' European Journal of Communication

• Contents: Series preface. Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Transcribing video data; The presentation as monologue; Doing the academic presentation; Showing structure within the academic presentation; Doing deixis; Interacting with objects; Conclusion; References; Index.

Johanna Rendle-Short is a lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at The Australian National University, Australia.

'The book provides a meticulous dissection of the situated talk we recognize and respond to in the academic seminar, showing how that recognition and response occur and how being an academic seminar presenter is accomplished.' European Journal of Communication

• Contents: Series preface. Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Transcribing video data; The presentation as monologue; Doing the academic presentation; Showing structure within the academic presentation; Doing deixis; Interacting with objects; Conclusion; References; Index.