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