Introduction: Approaches to communication strategies
Gabriele Kasper and Eric Kellerman

I Psycholinguistic perspectives

1. Investigating communication strategies in L2 reference: Pros and cons
George Yule and Elaine Tarone

2. On psychological plausibility in the study of communication strategies
Eric Kellerman and Ellen Bialystok

3. Compensatory strategies and the principles of clarity and economy
Nanda Poulisse

4. Preference and order in first and second language referential communication
George Russell

5. Strategies in verbal productions of brain-damaged individuals
Brigitte Stemmer and Yves Joanette

II Expanding the scope

6. Developing the ability to evaluate verbal information: The relevance of referential communication research
Peter Lloyd

7. Can one be more than two? Mono- and bilinguals' production of German and Spanish object descriptions in a referential communication task
Werner Deutsch, Nanci Bruhn, Gowert Masche and Heiki Behrens

8. 'Y ... no puodo decir mas nada': Distanced communication skills of Puerto Rican children
Ana Maria Rodino and Catherine Snow

9. The lexical generation gap: A connectionist account of circumlocution in Chinese as a Second Language
Patricia A. Duff

10. An introspective analysis of listener inferencing on a second language listening task
Steven Ross

11. Studying language use as collaboration
Deanne Wilkes-Gibbs

III Sociolinguistic perspectives

12. A sociolinguistic perspective on L2 communication strategies
Ben Rampton

13. Communication strategies in an interactional context: The mutual achievement of comprehension
Jessica Williams, Rebecca Inscoe, and Thomas Tasker

14. Communication strategies at work
Johannes Wagner and Alan Firth

15. Beyond reference
Gabriele Kasper

Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index