DISCOURS, ACTION ET APPROPRIATION DES LANGUES [Discourse, action, and appropriation of languages]. Francine Cicurel and Daniel Véronique (Eds.). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002. Pp. 286. €19.00 paper.

As the words “discourse” and “action” in the title suggest, this volume focuses on the pragmatic aspects of SLA with a selection of refereed articles from the 1999 conference Acquisition d'une langue étrangère: perspectives et recherches “Acquisition of a foreign language: Perspectives and research” with the theme Usages pragmatiques et acquisition d'une langue étrangère “Pragmatic uses and acquisition of a foreign language.” In the introduction, the editors provide a brief overview of SLA research with a clear emphasis on pragmatic issues—for example, differences between naturalistic and classroom acquisition in terms of social contexts and interactional patterns. The volume contains three thematic sections followed by an epilogue featuring the written version of three contributions that served as a synthesis at the end of the conference. Each section is followed by grouped bibliographic references. This particular organization is a little off-putting, especially because this editorial choice is never clearly mentioned in the text. Further, the reference sections are somewhat sloppy with spelling inconsistencies for author names (Vygotski and Vygotsky), publication dates in the bibliography that do not always correspond to the article citations, and several in-text references omitted from the bibliography.