Papers on aspects of pragmatics include: "Pragmatics and Language Learning" (Lawrence F. Bouton); "Pragmatics and Language Teaching: Bringing Pragmatics and Pedagogy Together" (Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig); "Cross-Cultural Communication and Interlanguage Pragmatics: American vs. European Requests" (Jasone Cenoz, Jose F. Valencia); "'At Your Earliest Convenience:' A Study of Written Student Requests to Faculty" (Beverly S. Hartford, Bardovi-Harlig); "Cross-Cultural Differences in American and Russian General Conventions of Communication" (Yuliya B. Kartalova); "Foregrounding the Role of Common Ground in Language Learning" (Sara W. Smith, Andreas H. Jucker); "The Pragmatics of Uncertainty" (Noriko Tanaka); "Sociocultural Dimensions on Voice in Non-Native Language Writing" (Linda A. Harklau, Sandra R. Schecter); "Metadiscourse and Text Pragmatics: How Students Write After Learning about Metadiscourse" (Margaret S. Steffensen, Xiaoguang Cheng); "Underproduction Does Not Necessarily Mean Avoidance: Investigation of Underproduction Using Chinese ESL Learners" (Jiang Li); and "Contextual Thinking about Teaching: Special Educators' Metaphorical Representations of Practical Knowledge" (Mark P. Mostert). (MSE)