Frontmatter -- Part I -- A Pragmatic Perspective -- 1 Linguistic pragmatics -- 2 The pragmatic scope -- A Psycholinguistic Perspective -- 3 Second language acquisition -- 4 Recent approaches to second language acquisition -- An Empirical Perspective -- 5 Classroom interaction -- 6 Experimental design -- Part II -- An Empirical Approach I -- 7 Discourse strategies in interactions between non-native and native speakers of English -- 8 The communicative act of requesting -- 9 Request strategies in ...