Introduction: Approaches to communication strategiesGabriele Kasper and Eric KellermanI Psycholinguistic perspectives1. Investigating communication strategies in L2 reference: Pros and consGeorge Yule and Elaine Tarone2. On psychological plausibility in the study of communication strategiesEric Kellerman and Ellen Bialystok3. Compensatory strategies and the principles of clarity and economyNanda Poulisse4. Preference and order in first and second language referential communicationGeorge Russell5. Strategies in verbal productions of brain-damaged individualsBrigitte Stemmer and Yves JoanetteII Expanding the scope6. Developing the ability to evaluate verbal information: The relevance of referential communication researchPeter Lloyd7. Can one be more than two? Mono- and bilinguals' production of German and Spanish object descriptions in a referential communication taskWerner Deutsch, Nanci Bruhn, Gowert Masche and Heiki Behrens8. 'Y ... no puodo decir mas nada': Distanced communication skills of Puerto Rican childrenAna Maria Rodino and Catherine Snow9. The lexical generation gap: A connectionist account of circumlocution in Chinese as a Second LanguagePatricia A. Duff10. An introspective analysis of listener inferencing on a second language listening taskSteven Ross11. Studying language use as collaborationDeanne Wilkes-GibbsIII Sociolinguistic perspectives12. A sociolinguistic perspective on L2 communication strategiesBen Rampton13. Communication strategies in an interactional context: The mutual achievement of comprehensionJessica Williams, Rebecca Inscoe, and Thomas Tasker14. Communication strategies at workJohannes Wagner and Alan Firth15. Beyond referenceGabriele KasperBibliographySubject IndexName Index