Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Investigating the production of speech act sets -- Non-native refusals: A methodological perspective -- Natural speech act data versus written questionnaire data: How data collection method affects speech act performance -- Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English -- Egyptian and Anterican contplintents: Focus on second language learners -- Politeness strategies in French and English -- Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing -- My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining -- Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech act analysis: The case of complaints -- Frolll the addressee's perspective: Illlposition in favor-asking -- Transfer of pragmatic competence and suggestions in Spanish foreign language learning -- Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U. S., Japan, China, and Korea -- Culture, negotiations and international cooperative ventures -- Backmatter.

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

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