Introduction / Andrea Tyler
Support from language processing for a constructional approach to grammar / Adele E. Goldberg and Guilia M. L. Bencini
Homonyms and functional mappings in language acquisition / Devin M. Casenhiser
Little persuaders: japanese children's use of datte (but-because) and their developing theories of mind / Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko Yamamoto
"Because" as a marker of collaborative stance in preschool children's peer interactions / Amy Kyratzis
Contextualizing interlanguage pragmatics / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Learning the discourse of friendship / Catherine Evans Davies
Applied cognitive linguistics and newer trends in foreign language teaching methodology / Susanne Niemeier
Language play and language learning: creating zones of proximal development in a third-grade multilingual classroom / Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings and Steven G. McCafferty
Cognates, cognition, and writing: an invetigation of the use of cognates by university second-language learners / Robin Cameron Scarcella and Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman
Intonation, mental representation, and mutual knowledge / Ann Wennerstrom
Linguistic variation in the lexical episodes of university classroom talk / Eniko Csomay
The unofficial businesses of repair initiation: vehicles for affiliation and disaffiliation / Hansun Zhang Waring
Pragmatic inferencing in grammaticalization: a case study of direcitonal verbs in thai / Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara
"Trying on" the identity of "big sister": hypothetical narratives in parent-child discourse / Cynthia Gordon
The discourse of local identity in postwar Bosnia-herzegovina / Aida Premilovac
Immigration geographies, multilingual immigrants, and the transmission of minority languages: evidence from the Igbo brain drain / Rachel R. Reynolds
