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