Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Why Hyphenate Co-Operative? -- 1.1.1. The Conceptualization of Cooperation in Animal Experiments --1.2. Phenomena Implicated in Co-Operative Action -- 1.2.1. Language -- 1.2.2. Human Sociality -- 1.2.3. Creating Skilled, Competent Members -- 1.3. Brief Overview -- 1.3.1. Part I Co-Operative Accumulative Action -- 1.3.2. Part II Intertwined Semiosis -- 1.3.3. Part III Embodied Interaction -- 1.3.4. Part IV Co-Operative Action with Predecessors: Sedimented Landscapes for Knowledge and Action -- 1.3.5. Part V Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants -- 1.4. Transcription and Presentation of Data -- 1.5. Summary -- 2. Co-Operative Accumulation as a Pervasive Feature of the Organization of Action --2.1. Building New Action by Reusing with Transformation Materials Provided by Others -- 2.1.1.A Historical Digression -- 2.2. The Co-Operative Construction of Subsequent Action. Note continued: 2.2.1. Co-Operation(s) -- 2.2.2. Accumulation -- 2.2.3. Substrates -- 2.3. Varied Practices for Co-Operative Accumulation -- 2.3.1. Symbolic Language Embedded within Indexical and Iconic Forms of Semiosis -- 2.4. Summary -- 2.4.1. Building Action Co-Operatively on Substrates That Accumulate Resources -- 2.4.1.1. Accumulation -- 2.4.1.2. Substrates -- 2.5. The Combinatorial Organization of Language and Action as Visible Public Practice -- 2.6. The Dialogic Syntax of John Du Bois -- 2.7. The Extraordinarily Rich Language of Poor African-American Children -- 3. The Co-Operative Organization of Emerging Action -- 3.1. The Emergence of Objects within Lived Time -- 3.2. Multiparty Co-Operative Accumulation within Noun Phrases -- 3.3.Competing Tellings -- 3.4. Inhabiting a Different World -- 4. Chil and His Resources -- 4.1. Chil's Resources -- 4.1.1. Chil's Life after His Stroke and How I Recorded His Interaction. Note continued: 5. Building Complex Meaning and Action with a Three-Word Vocabulary: Inhabiting and Reshaping the Actions of Others through Accumulative Transformation -- 5.1. Incorporating Rich Language Structure Produced by Others -- 5.2. Incorporating Talk Produced by Others While Transforming It -- 5.2.1. Indexical Incorporation -- 5.2.2. Symbols -- 5.2.3. Chains of Interpretants -- 5.3. Two Practices for Reusing, with Transformation, Materials Created Earlier by Others -- 6. The Distributed Speaker -- 6.1. The Distributed Organization of Both Speakers and Their Utterances -- 6.2. An Example of Cooperation -- 6.3. Symbols That Lack Necessary Indexical Grounding -- 6.4. Ideal, Self-Contained Fully Competent Actors, or Distributed Interactive Fields Encompassing Participants with Different Abilities? -- 7. Intertwined Knowing -- 7.1. Differential Knowledge States as a Constitutive Feature of Human Action -- 7.1.1. Actively Sustaining a Complementary Distribution of Knowledge. Note continued: 7.2. Multiple Transformations within a Single Sentence -- 7.3. Conclusion -- 7.3.1. The Ongoing Organization of Awareness That Others Have Knowledge That Differs from Our Own through Co-Operative Action -- 7.3.2. The Interpreting Self as Unfolding Co-Operative Practice -- 7.3.3. The Shaping of Utterances, Actions, and Sentences within Interaction -- 7.3.4. Simultaneous Co-Operative Action -- 8. Building Action by Combining Different Kinds of Materials -- 8.1. Building Action by Joining Together Different Kinds of Resources -- 8.2. The Laminated Organization of Spoken Action -- 8.2.1. Inflecting Stance -- 8.3. Using Prosody to Build Varied Action with a Limited Lexicon -- 8.3.1. Saying Something Different by Building a New Contextual Configuration -- 8.4. Building Action through Use of Varied, Distributed Resources -- 8.5. Chil's Timing -- 8.5.1. Exploiting Rhythm and Timing in American Football -- 8.6. Conclusion -- 9. Intertwined Actors. Note continued: 9.1. The Laminated Organization of Human Action -- 9.1.1. Delaminating Talk and Action Provided b Others -- 9.2. Laminated Co-Operative Action That Spans Centuries -- 9.3. Visible Co-Operations on Another's Emerging Talk -- 9.3.1.A Silent, though Visible Principal Character -- 9.3.2. Building Action by Performing Structure Preserving Visible Transformations on a Public Substrate -- 9.4. The Visible Cognitive Life of the Hearer -- 9.5. Temporally Unfolding Participation Central to the Organization of Human Action -- 9.6. Human Tools -- 9.7. The Combinatorial Organization of Human Tools as a Matrix for the Constitution of Human Social and Economic Organization -- 9.8. Conclusion -- 10. Projection and the Interactive Organization of Unfolding Experience -- 10.1. Assessments -- 10.1.1. Embodied Responses by Recipients to Assessments -- 10.2. Assessment Adjectives as Guides for Hearers -- 10.3. Monitoring the Experiential Displays of Others. Note continued: 10.3.1. Bringing Assessment Activity to a Close -- 10.4. Conclusion -- 11. Projecting Upcoming Events to Accomplish Co-Operative Action -- 11.1. Movement to a Different Kind of Activity -- 11.2. Projecting the Loci for Collaborative Activity in Talk -- 11.2.1. Extended Overlap -- 11.2.2. Differential Access as an Organizing Feature of Concurrent Assessments -- 11.2.3. Making Visible Congruent Understanding -- 11.2.4. Erroneous Projection -- 11.2.5. Simultaneous Vocal and Nonvocal Heightened Involvement -- 11.2.6. Exiting from the Collaborative Assessment -- 11.2.7. Laminating Inconsistent Displays to Create Delicate Withdrawals -- 12. Action and Co-Operative Embodiment in Girl's Hopscotch -- 12.1. Semiotic Structure in the Environment -- 12.2. Talk-in-Interaction -- 12.3. Changing Contextual Configurations -- 12.4. Conclusion -- 13. Practices of Color Classification -- 13.1. Mapping a Feature -- 13.2. Semiotic Structure in the Environment. Note continued: 13.3. The Munsell Chart as a Historically Shaped Field for the Production of Action -- 13.4. Heterotopias -- 13.5. Building Action within Talk-in-Interaction with the Munsell Chart -- 13.6. The Intersubjective Constitution of the Objects That Animate the Work of a Community -- 13.6.1. The Intelligible Body: Embodied Stance and the Constitution of Action -- 13.7. Using Graphic Fields to Build Action -- 14. Highlighting and Mapping the World as Co-Operative Practice -- 14.1. Highlighting -- 14.2. Graphic Representations as Embodied Practice -- 14.3. Co-Operative Action as a Framework for Making Public Another's Understanding -- 14.4. Calibrating Professional Vision through Embodied Co-Operative Action within a Relevant Environment -- 15. Environmentally Coupled Gestures -- 15.1. Juxtaposing Multiple Semiotic Fields to Accomplish Pointing -- 15.2. Gestures Tied to the Environment -- 15.3. The Communicative Status of Environmentally Coupled Gestures. Note continued: 15.3.1. Embedding Gesture within Participation Frameworks -- 15.3.2. Multiple Forms of Embodied Semiosis Operate Simultaneously -- 15.4. The Accumulative Power of the Laminated Structure of Human Action --15.5. Conclusion -- 16. Co-Operative Action with Predecessors -- 16.1. The Consequential Presence of Absent Predecessors within Local Face-to-Face Interaction -- 16.1.1. The Special Character of Copresence -- 16.2. My Use of the Term "Predecessor" -- 16.3. Co-Operative Action with Absent Predecessors -- 16.3.1. Substrate Created Co-Operatively by Actors Distributed in Space and by Task -- 16.3.2. Transforming a Scene into Action-Relevant Objects -- 16.4.Organizing the Work-Relevant Perception of the Environment -- 16.5. Co-Operative Accumulation Both with Those Who Are Present, and with the Materials Provided by Predecessors -- 16.6. The Schedule as a Cultural Umwelt -- 16.7. The Schedule Organizing Work-Relevant Perception within an Umwelt.