INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS: EXPLORING INSTITUTIONAL TALK.Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Beverly Hartford (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005. Pp. v + 230. $29.95 paper.

This volume is an edited collection of recent research on institutional talk from an interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) perspective. It is targeted at ILP researchers, particularly those who have restricted themselves to the collection of elicited data. Its purpose is to demonstrate the value of and procedures for conducting research on institutional and workplace talk. The volume consists of an introduction, eight chapters (an overview chapter, six chapters on ILP research in institutions, and a final chapter that provides guidelines for conducting research in institutions), each with its own bibliographic references, and separate author and subject indexes.