Editorials

Reviews

Pragmatic approaches to languages in contrast: Expansion or recycling?
Karin Ajmer. 2011. Contrastive Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Advances in interaction-based prosody research
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, Margret Selting. 2010. Prosody in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Focal or subsidiary? Managing gender categories in analysis
Susan Speer, Elizabeth Stokoe (eds.). 2011. Conversation and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Language and the world: Some perspectives on impact linguistics
Alwin Frank Fill. 2010. The Language Impact. Evolution – System – Discourse. Sheffield: Equinox.

Multi-dimensional frameworks for new media narratives
Christian R. Hoffmann (ed.). 2010. Narrative Revisited. Telling a Story in the Age of New Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

A gestalt-based solution to problematic sentence-final particles in Japanese
Hideki Saigo. 2011. The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Context- and formula based approaches in the investigation of request strategies of Chinese EFL learners
Vincent X. Wang. 2011. Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Novel applications of cognitive approaches in second language acquisition
Jeannette Littlemore, Constanze Juchem-Grundmann (eds.). 2010. Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching. AILA Review, Volume 23. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Breaking new ground in the research on L2 speakers' use of Korean honorifics
Lucien Brown. 2011. Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.