Gabriele Kasper

Gabriele Kasper is a professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where she has taught since 1988. She is a leading scholar in interlanguage pragmatics and conversation analysis, known for her contributions to the shift toward socially grounded approaches in second language acquisition research. Her work also explores the social context of language learning and the role of cognition and emotion in multilingual contexts.