Ivelina K. Tchizmarova (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics,Ball State University)(itchizmarova@bsu.edu) currently teaches ESL in British Columbia, Canada. She has published in Balkanistica, The University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, the Journal of Pragmatics, and the INTESOL Journal. Her research interests are pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, comparative-contrastive analysis, TESOL, and SLA.