In this lucid and timely edited volume, Taguchi and Sykes bring together three essential areas in 21st century second language research and pedagogy: 1) an emphasis on pragmatics, which inarguably constitutes the heart of the human communicative experience; 2) expert commentary on the use of digital methodologies and instrumentation that support cutting edge interlanguage pragmatics research, and 3) a focus on a wide variety of communication and information technologies that increasingly mediate both ‘free-range’ as well as educationally oriented life experience. Individual chapters provide comprehensive treatments of the pragmatics-technology nexus in areas such as assessment, feedback, and pragmatics development in transcultural communication settings. This foreword-thinking landmark volume represents a major theoretical and empirical statement and is highly relevant to scholars and practitioners in the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and language education and pedagogy.

- Steven L. Thorne, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Portland State University (USA), and Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen (Netherlands),

The contributors highlight work that ventures into uncharted territories within pragmatics teaching, assessment, and research, and they provide excellent models for continuing with this trend. Moreover, the volume represents a variety of theoretical approaches (e.g., sociocultural theory, skill<br />acquisition theory) and analytical methods and designs (corpus analysis, conversation analysis, microgenetic case studies, and ethnographic and experimental studies). The authors diligently report not only successes but also lessons learned to inform future studies (e.g., Holden and Sykes on the challenges with the design of the Mentira game). Thus, this volume paints a holistic<br />picture of opportunities and challenges in using technology in pragmatics teaching and research.

- Tetyana Sydorenko, Portland State University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36(4), 2013,

This book fills up a long-time gap in the evolution of pragmatic research by addressing a variety of topics at the intersection between technology and pragmatics that bring the research in the field into the 21st century. As our forms of communication evolve and become more mediated by new technologies, researchers and students interested in pragmatics will find in each chapter invaluable illustrations of avant-garde research to follow!

- Marta Gónzalez Lloret, University of Hawai'i at Manoa,