A collection of essays on aspects of pragmatics in non-Western cultures includes these papers: "Social Rank and Tunebo Requests" (Paul Headland); "The Use of Reported Speech in Saramaccan Discourse" (Naomi Glock); "An Analysis of Illocutionary Verbs in Walmatjari" (Joyce Hudson); "Please Be Specific: A Functional Description of Noun-Marking Particles in Limos Kalinga" (Hartmut Wiens); "Self-Correction in Capanahua Narration" (Betty Hall Loos); "Being Negative Can Be Positive" (Ger P. Reesink); "Outline of a Practical Frame of Reference for a Sociolinguistic Analysis in an African Context" (Suzanne Lafage); and "Social Context and Mampruli Greetings" (Anthony Naden). (MSE)