The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics involving research on
interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition
contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural
perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study i.e. intercultural pragmatics
which can be made fruitful to second language teaching learning and contrastive analysis. The
book is an important contribution to general linguistics pragmatics cross-cultural
communication second language acquisition as well as minority issues in multilingual
settings.
