ABSTRACT
In 1983, the p redecesso r o f this p resen t volum e was published . C alled Strategies in Interlanguage Communication, it was a collection o f 12 papers on the subject o f how w hat have traditionally been called communication strategies (CS) are used to tackle an d over com e linguistic p rob lem s e n c o u n te re d d u rin g in te rac tio n involv ing non-native speakers. Som e o f the papers in th a t book are classics o f th e ir k ind, yet w hen the idea for a second ed ition o f the book was first p ro p o sed som e ten years later, we b o th felt th a t so m uch new research had taken place in the in te rv en in g years, n o t to m en tio n work in n e ig h b o u rin g fields w hich was b o th in te resting and relevant th a t an en tire ly new book was req u ired . However, con tinu ity betw een the previous an d the p resen t volum es is m ain ta ined n o t only in the g enera l subject m atter, bu t also in the fact th a t fo u r o f the co n trib u to rs to the earlie r work, E llen Bialystok, G abriele Kasper, E laine T arone, an d Jo h a n n e s W agner, ap p ea r h ere once again.
