Pragmatics and language learning

Preface
Part One: Aspects of Pragmatics


Janusz Arabski
Compliment Responses in a Cross-Cultural Perpective


Marcus Callies
Information Structure and Discourse Pragmatics in German-English Interlanguage


Elżbieta Krawczyk-Neifar
The Role of Proficiency Factor in the Development of Pragmatic Awareness among Polish Learners of English


Jan Majer, Łukasz Salski
The Pragmatics of Classroom Discourse: Request and Commands


Adam Palka
'Injury Lurks in Language, or Does it?' - Pragmalinquistic Analysis of Selected Notions and Utterances and Some Implications for Second Language Learning



Jan Zalewski
The Sociopragmatic Context of Learning to Write: Speaker Versus Writer Context Sensivity


Rudiger Zimmermann
Interlaguage Pragmatics - Methodology, Compliment Responses, Fefusals


Part Two: Related Issues

Anna Bąk Discourse and Comprehension


Joanna Bielska
On the Role of Psyvchological Type in Second Language Learning

Anna Cieślicka
Bilingual Language Users' Sensitivity to Semantic Analyzability of L2 Idioms - Testing the Effect of Idiom Analyzability in L2 Metalinguistic Tasks


Danuta Gabryś-Barker
To Gesticulate or Not to Gesticulate? On Gestures in L1 and L2 Contexts


Anna Michońska-Stadnik
Gender Differences and Preferred Learning Environment in a Foreign Language Classroom


Liliana Piasecka
"Eternal Rules" and "*Another Studies" - Advanced Learners' Problems with Producing Writen Academic Discourse


Agnieszka Solska
Verbal Irony and the EFL/ESL Learner

David Singleton
Criticizing the Critical Period Hypothesis


Krystyna Warchał
Genre-Awareness in Second Language Acquisition