Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Agency in Second Language Research -- 2. Theories of Agency and Language Learning -- 3. Analyzing Agency Constructs in Interview Discourse -- 4. Agency and Responsibility: Positioning Self in Subject-Predicate Constructs -- 5. Stance and Subjectivity: Evaluating Agentive Capacity -- 6. Performing Agency and Responsibility in Reported Speech -- 7. Local Production of Ideology and Discursive Agency -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index