This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event — classroom “participant examples.” The study reports that in some cases speakers not only discuss, but also act out the roles assigned to them in participant examples. Drawing on linguistic pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics, the author describes the linguistic mechanisms that speakers use to act out participant examples. He focuses on the role of deictics, and personal pronouns in particular, in establishing and organizing relationships. The volume also presents a new methodological technique — “deictic mapping” — that can be used to uncover interactional organization in all sorts of speech events. Furthermore, drawing on the philosophy and sociology of education, the volume discusses the social and educational implications of enacted participant examples.