Foreword / Michael Silverstein -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Improvisation in Theater and Everyday Conversation -- Ch. 2. Don't Shoot the Piano Player: My Encounter with Chicago Improv -- Ch. 3. What Improvised Dialogue Creates: Frame and Context in Conversation Research -- Ch. 4. How Improvised Dialogues Create: The Collaborative Emergence of Conversation -- Ch. 5. What Actors Know: An Ethnotheory of Conversation -- Ch. 6. The Freeze Games: How to Create a Frame -- Ch. 7. Improv Games: How Rules Affect Improvised Dialogues -- Ch. 8. Collaborative Emergence in Long-Form Improvisation -- Ch. 9. Conclusion: The Emergent Frame as Social Fact
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