Papers presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992.

Includes bibliographical references.

Welcoming remarks / James E. Alatis

Presentation of the Dean's Medal to Kenneth L. Pike / James E. Alatis

M. A. K. Halliday: An introduction / James E. Alatis

The act of meaning / M. A. K. Halliday

Dell Hymes: An introduction / James E. Alatis

Inequality in language: Taking for granted / Dell Hymes

Language transfer and levels of meaning potential in Malaysian English / Peter H. Lowenberg

Meaning, means, and maintenance / Kamal K. Sridhar

Contested conventions in writing about the law / Courtney B. Cazden

Register or relevance? : Seventh graders write arguments for a mock trial / Judith Diamondstone

Contexts for meaning / Ruqaiya Hasan

Language, communication, social meaning, and social change: The challenge for teachers / Sandra J. Savignon

Social meaning IN language curriculum, OF language curriculum, and THROUGH language curriculum / James Dean Brown

How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French / John Moran

Content language learning: Symbiosis in the academe / Diane Musumeci

A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part I: Theoretical and methodological considerations / Diane Larsen-Freeman

A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part II: Insights from discourse analysis / Marianne Celce-Murcia

Proficiency and accuracy: Enemies or allies? / Rebecca M. Valette

Internationalization of the university: Where are the foreign languages? / Wilga M. Rivers

English in Europe: Language pragmatics or language policy / Margie Berns

French immersion graduates at university and beyond: What difference has it made? / Marjorie Bingham Wesche

EAP oral communication curriculum: Spoken discourse, meaning, and communicative 'pronunciation' / Joan Morley

Teaching language and culture: A view from the schools / Myriam Met

Principles and parameters in language and society / Charles Ferguson

Ethnolinguistic democracy: Varieties, degrees, and limits / Joshua A. Fishman

A brief update on my interest in relating language to philosophy / Kenneth L. Pike

Communication, community, and the problem of appropriate use / H. G. Widdowson

Discourse community and the evaluation of written text / John M. Swales

Second culture acquisition: A tentative step in determining hierarchies / Nadine O'Connor Di Vito

Information flow in written advertising / Peter H. Fries

When and how old age is relevant in discourse of the elderly: A case study of Georgia O'Keeffe / Elif Tolga Rosenfeld

Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts / Yamuna Kachru

Formulaic opposition markers in Chinese conflict talk / Sai-hua Kuo

Sociocultural parameters of intelligibility / Cecil L. Nelson

Some new evidence for an old hypothesis / Stephen Krashen

Social meanings for how we teach / Earl W. Stevick

Communication with second language learners: What does it reveal about the social and linguistic processes of second language learning? / Teresa Pica

Dialogic emergence of culture in the language classroom / Claire Kramsch

Metaphorical competence in second language acquisition and second language teaching: The neglected dimension / Marcel Danesi

Perspectives on communicative language teaching: Syllabus design and methodology / H. G. Widdowson

"This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy through language policy to discourse analysis." (Back Cover)