Deciding what to tell : selecting and elaborating narrative topics in family interaction and children's elicited personal experience stories / Diane E. Beals and Catherine E. Snow -- Greek children and familiar narratives in family contexts : en route to cultural performances / Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- "What did you do in school today?" Speech genres and tellability in multiparty family mealtime conversations in two cultures / Vibeke Aukrust -- "Do you believe that Lot's wife is blocking the road (to Jericho)?" Co-constructing theories about the world with adults / Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- Peer-group culture and narrative development / Ageliki Nicolopoulou -- Socialization of affect during mealtime interactions / Christine Hโerot -- Cognitive expressions and humorous phrases in family discourse as reflectors and cultivators of cognition / Ruth Nevat-Gal -- Language games in the strict sense of the term : children's poetics and conversation / Alessandra Fasulo, Vivian Liberati, and Clotilde Pontecorvo -- Everyone has to lie in Tzeltal / Penelope Brown -- Voice and collusion in adult-child talk : toward an architecture of intersubjectivity / Karin Aronsson and Mia Thorell -- Bilingual context for language development / Hiroko Kasuya -- From home to school : school-age children talking with adults / Catherine E. Snow and Shoshana Blum-Kulka