This volume on pragmatics and language learning includes the following: "'Cultural Scripts': A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication" (Anna Wierzbicka); "Issues in Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" (Ayo Bamgbose); "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research and the Classroom" (Yamuna Kachru); "Pragmatics Consciousness-Raising in an EFL Context" (Kenneth R. Rose); "Discourse Analysis and Instructional Flexibility: A Pragmatic Grammar" (Francois V. Tochon, Jean-Paul Dionne); "Can NNS Skill in Interpreting Implicatures in American English Be Improved through Explicit Instruction?--A Pilot Study" (Lawrence F. Bouton); "Asking for Permission vs. Making Requests: Strategies Chosen by Japanese Speakers of English" (Hisae Niki, Hiroko Tajika);"American Students' Questioning Behavior and Its Implications for ESL" (Janie Rees-Miller); "Constructing Facts and Stances Through Voicing: Cases from Student-Counselor Interaction" (Agnes Weiyun He); "Topic Appropriateness in Cross-Cultural Social Conversations" (Eli Hinkel); "Spanish and American Turn-Taking Styles: A comparative Study" (Ann Berry); "Cross-Linguistic Influences on the Acquisition of Discourse Level Constraints on the Comprehension and Use of Adversative Conjunctions" (Erica McClure); "The Correlation of Discourse Markers and Discourse Structure" (Pinmin Kuo); "Comparative Rhetoric: An Integration of Perspectives" (Muriel Saville-Troike, Donna M. Johnson); "The Distribution and Function of Relative Clauses in Literature" (Donald E. Hardy, Karen Milton); "Non-Grammatical Reflexive Binding Phenomena: The Case of Japanese" (Sonoko Sakakibara); "A Note on Pragmatic Markedness" (M. Lynne Murphy); and "Acquisition in Context: The Discourse Domain Hypothesis of Interlanguage Variation" (Shona Whyte). (MSE)