Gabriele Kasper is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her current research is concerned with social interaction in multilingual contexts, including second language learning and assessment, the social side of cognition and emotion, and the application of conversation analysis to standard social science research methods. Her most recent co-edited volumes are Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Emotion in Multilingual Interaction (John Benjamins, in press).