Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notational conventions -- Contributors -- Findings and developments in ELF pragmatics research: An introduction -- Part 1: Developments in ELF pragmatic theory -- Accommodation in ELF: Where from? Where now? Where next? -- Pragmatic strategies in ELF communication: Key findings and a way forward -- From cross to inter to trans - *cultural pragmatics on the move: The need for expanding methodologies in lingua franca research -- (Im)politeness in video-mediated first conversations amongst speakers of English as a lingua franca -- Part 2: Pragmalinguistic studies in English as a lingua franca -- The pragmatics of other-initiated repair in ELF interactions among Southeast Asians -- Pragmatic strategies of Asian ELF users in institutional settings -- Interjections in spoken ELF interactions -- Part 3: Sociopragmatic studies in English as a lingua franca -- 'You're very rich, right?': Personal finance as an (in)appropriate or (im)polite conversational topic among Asian ELF users -- From SLA pragmatics to ELF pragmatics: (Re)conceptualising norms of appropriateness -- Unpacking pragmatic norms of Chinese speakers of English for English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication -- Where to now? Future directions in ELF pragmatics research -- Index