gkasper@hawaii.edu
Professor of Second Language Studies
North American Editor, Applied Linguistics
Grew up in Germany, citizen of Denmark, resident alien in the USA
Dr. phil. (Ph.D.) in Applied Linguistics (Dissertation on interlanguage pragmatics), German and English Linguistics and Literature, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), 1980
Conversation analysis of second language data; discourse analysis; sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of interlanguage pragmatics, especially development, instruction and research methods in pragmatics.
House, J., Kasper, G., & Ross, S. (Eds.) (2003). Misunderstanding in social life. Discourse approaches to problematic talk. Harlow, UK: Longman/Pearson Education.
Kasper, G., & Rose, K.R. (2002). Pragmatic development in a second language. Oxford: Blackwell.
Rose, K. R., & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (2001). Pragmatics in language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kasper, G. & Kellerman, E. (Eds.) (1997). Communication strategies: Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. London: Longman.
Kasper, G. (Ed.) (1996). Development of pragmatic competence (= Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18:2).
Kasper, G. (Ed.) (1995). Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language. Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Kasper, G. & Blum-Kulka, S. (Eds.) (1993). Interlanguage pragmatics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kasper, G. (Ed.) (1992). Pragmatics of Japanese as native and target language. Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Kasper, G. & Grotjahn, R. (Eds.) (1991). Methodology in second language research (= Studies in Second Language Acquisition 13:2).
Blum-Kulka, S. & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (1990). Politeness (= Journal of Pragmatics 14:2).
Blum-Kulka, S., House, J., & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (1989). Cross-cultural pragmatics. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Kasper, G., & Wagner, Johannes (Eds.) (1989). Grundbog i fremmedsprogspædagogik. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
Færch, C. & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (1987). Introspection in second language research. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Færch, C. & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (1985). Foreign language learning under classroom conditions (=Studies in Second Language Acquisition 7:2).
Færch, C. & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (1983). Strategies in interlanguage communication. London: Longman.
Kasper, G. (1981). Pragmatische Aspekte in der Interimsprache. Tübingen: Narr.
Edmondson, W., House, J., Kasper, G., & McKeown, J. (1977). A pedagogic grammar of the English verb. Tübingen: Narr.
German (native, attriting), English (fossilized), Danish (ditto, but at an earlier developmental stage), other Scandinavian languages (receptive, sometimes), French, Spanish & Italian (lost), Latin (reading, after revision of grammar & vocabulary lists), Japanese (7 routine formulae).
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