Abstract
Successful social interaction requires that participants continually adjust their responses and expectations about others' responses to interactional contingencies. This article extends the analysis of expectations to include not just the anticipation of single responsive actions but also patterns of action that constitute what Schutz referred to as completed acts. Here, I suggest that when events render the future of the interaction problematic, individuals' expectations of the future take on a narrative form. These expectancy narratives provide a script for the formation of actions, which may be revised frequently over the course of the interaction in response to the actions of others. Analysis of responses to an unfolding vignette shows that both the content and structural form of such narratives vary in numerous ways in response to interactional contingencies and according to the gender of respondents.
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