Papers presented at the symposium on the relationship between language and culture include, in addition to an opening adress: "Sociosemiotics Across Cultures" (Wolfgang Kuhlwein); "Translation Across Languages or Across Cultures?" (Albrecht Neubert); "Grammatical Categories Across Cultures" (Olga Tomic); "On Taking Language Tests: What the Students Report" (Andrew Cohen); "Language and Cultural Identity: The Cases of Ireland and Romania" (Martin Croghan); "Some Sociolinguistic Observations on the Learning of English by Vietnamese in Ireland" (Miriam Dean); "Folklore, Linguistics, and Bilingualism" (Owen Egan); "A Socio-Cultural Model of Communication: Parameters that Define It" (Stathis Efstathiadis); "Language and Ethnic Identity: The Irish Language in the United States" (Jeffrey Kallen); "A Pragmatic Account of Reference in English and Polish" (Barbara Kryk); "Fossilization, Pidginization, and the Monitor" (Marquette Lowther); "Social Context and Language Usage: Implications for Children with Impaired Hearing" (Patrick McDonnell); "Expression of Causativity and Factitivity in English and Hebrew" (Ezra Mentcher); "Young Punjabi Bilinguals in Northern Ireland: Their Language Competence and Identity Structure" (Mehroo Northover); "The Influence of English on Modern Spoken Hebrew" (Deborah Northmann); "English Words and Expressions in the Irish of Inis Meain and the Use of English by the Local Community" (Ciaran Coigligh); "The Value of Literary Translation in Language Teaching" (Cormac Cuilleanain); "Cross-Linguistic Speech Act Studies: Theoretical and Empirical Issues" (Elite Olshtain and Shoshana Blum-Kulka); "Contrastive Ethology of Language" (Michael Pickering); "A First Encounter with Dutch: Perceived Language Distance and Language Transfer as Factors in Comprehension" (David Singleton and David Little); and "Language Variation and Foreign Language Teaching: Issues and Orientations" (Albert Valdmann). (MSE)