Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.