The series of articles in this volume were selected from among those presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning in April 1994. Articles include: "The Right Tool for the Job: Techniques for Analysis of Natural Language Use" (Georgia M. Green); "Sinclair & Coulthard Revisited: Global- and Local-Allocational Turn-Taking Mechanisms in the Language Classroom" (Willfred J. Greyling); "Where Does Sociopragmatic Ambiguity Come From?" (Susan Meredith Burt); "Routine and Indirection in Interlanguage Pragmatics" (Gabriele Kasper); "Face Orientations in Reacting to Accusatory Complaints: Italian L1, English L1, and Italian as a Community Language" (Marina Frescura); "The Perception of Social Context in Request Performance" (Montserrat Mir);"Pauses and Co-Construction in Chinese Peer Review Discussions" (Hao Sun); "'I Must Be Seated To Talk to You': Taking Nonverbal Politeness Strategies into Account" (Elizabeth de Kadt); and "Topical Structure in Arabic-English Interlanguage" (Ahmed Fakhri). ( MSE)