The aims of this paper are, first, to make a case for cognitive approaches to the study of social behaviour, and, second, to overview the articles in this special issue. We suggest that issues of behavioural production are crucial to our understanding of social interaction. Further, because the problems of behavioural production implicate mental structures and processes, a theoretical approach that admits such constructs is desirable. Finally, we suggest that within the general orientation of cognitivism, some approaches are more likely than others to yield general, powerful principles. The framework articulated in pursuit of these points is then applied to a brief overview of the remaining papers in this issue.
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