Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of "Variational Pragmatics", this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: examine variation in such areas of pragmatics as speech acts, conventional expressions, metapragmatics, stance, frames, mitigation, communicative action, (im)politeness, and implicature; and critically review central methodological concerns relevant for research in pragmatic variation, such as coding, ethical...