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book, it succeeds in debunking many common critiques of CA, highlighting what comparative CA has accomplished so far, and delineating the promise and the challenges of a very exciting body of research.CACP provides a great introduction to CA for the linguistic anthropologist who may be put off by more rigid CA books.Without doubt, Sidnell's edited volume marks a before and after in the cross-linguistic study of social interaction.