Gabriele Kasper (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i, where she teaches in the M.A. in ESL, Ph.D. in SLA, and Advanced Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies programs. Her most recent books are" Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk," co-edited with Juliane House and Steven Ross (2003) and" Pragmatics in Language Teaching," co-edited with Ken Rose (2001). Other books include" Communication Strategies" (Kasper & Kellerman, Eds., 1997)," Interlanguage Pragmatics" (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, Eds., 1993), and" Cross...