Shuai Li is Associate Professor of Chinese, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chinese Program Coordinator in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University, USA. His research interests include the acquisition of L2 Chinese and interlanguage pragmatics. During 2022 and 2023, he served as the President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsShuai Li: IntroductionChapter 1. Shuai Li, Ting Wen and Yali Feng: Research on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995-2022): A State-of-the-Art ReviewPart 1: Acquisition of Key Pragmatic Features Chapter 2. Wenhao Diao and Chen Chen: 'Softening the Tone?': A Corpus-Based Study of the Utterance-Final Pragmatic Particle BA (吧) between L1 and L2 Chinese SpeakersChapter 3. Li Jin: L2 Chinese Internet Slang Learning: Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners’ Knowledge and MotivationChapter 4. Mo Chen, Wenxin Zhang, Yazhuo Qiu and Chunyin Li: Effects of Proficiency and Situation Type on the Production of L2 Chinese Request Strategies by Japanese LearnersPart 2: Methodological Innovations for Pragmatics AssessmentChapter 5. Tianyu (Sophie) Qin: Using a Slide Ruler to Assess Accuracy and Certainty in L2 Chinese Implicature ComprehensionChapter 6. Qiong Li: An Exploratory Study on a Natural Language Processing Approach to Evaluating L2 Pragmatic PerformanceChapter 7. Shuai Li: Using the Rasch Model to Evaluate Instrument and Data Quality in Assessing Requests in L2 ChinesePart 3: Individual Difference Factors in Pragmatics Acquisition Chapter 8. Yunwen Su and Xiao Hu: Proficiency, Motivation and Production of Conventional Expressions in L2 ChineseChapter 9. Jia Yang: Learning Strategies for Pragmatic Routines by Learners of L2 ChinesePart 4: Web-Based Approaches to Teaching and Learning PragmaticsChapter 10. Li Yang: Effects of Website-Delivered Instruction on Development of Pragmatic Awareness in L2 ChineseChapter 11. Xiaofei Tang: Is a Game More Appealing than an Online Lesson for L2 Pragmatics Learning?  Yali Feng and Shuai Li: Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Studies on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995-2022)  Index

Shuai Li has made a major contribution to the field with this landmark volume, compiling cutting-edge empirical studies on learning and teaching Chinese pragmatics. The chapters deal with wide-ranging pragmatic features in Chinese, including speech acts, sentence final particles, routines, gratitude expressions and implicature. This book is an exceptional model for further inquiry into pragmatics specific to individual languages.