This volume offers the first book-length treatment of second and foreign language learners' acquisition of pragmatics. It provides an up-to-date account of rese

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters wr

Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language

New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the

Pragmatics in Language Teaching examines the acquisition of language use in social contexts in second and foreign language classrooms. Included are 2 state-of-t