Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics Section 1: Intercultural Pragmatics and Discourse Markers -- A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding Sociocultural conceptualizations: Schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar: Cultural scripts in contrast Argumentation patterns in different languages: An analysis of metadiscourse markers in English and Spanish texts The management of global cultural diversity in ELT materials Section 2: Interlanguage Pragmatics: Strategies and Identity in the Foreign Language Classroom -- Reframing one's experience: Face, identity and roles in L2 argumentative discourse Indirect complaint in the language classroom: Cross-cultural contrasts between French and Japanese students of English "We make such a mishmash": Bilingual language usage in classroom peer group talk Pragmatics of humor in the foreign language classroom: Learning (with) humor Section 3: Development of Pragmatic Competence in Foreign Language Learning: Focus on "Requests" -- Interlanguage requests: A contrastive study Development of requests: A study on Turkish learners of English Perceived pragmatic transferability o f L1 request strategies by Persian learners of English Dutch English requests: A study of request performance by Dutch learners of English Contrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes: A study in variational pragmatics Getting better in getting what you want: Language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns Backmatter