DOCUMENT RESUME ED 344 419 FL 019 617 AUTHOR Mathuna, Liam Mac; Singleton, David TITLE Language across Cultures. Proceedings of a Symposium (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland, July 8-9, 1983). INSTITUTION Irish Association for Applied LingUistics, Dublin. REPORT NO ISBN-0-9509132-0-0 PUB DATE 84 NOTE 284p. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Bilingualism; Child Language; Children; Contrastive Linguistics; *Cross Cultural Studies; DuLch; English; Ethnicity; Folk Culture; Foreign Countries; Grammar; Hearing Impairments; Hebrew; Immigrants; *Intercultural Communication; Interlanguage; Irish; Language Processing; Language Research; *Language Role; Language Tests; Language Variation; Linguistic Borrowing; Listening Comprehension; Literature Appreciation; Panjabi; Pidgins; Polish; Pragmatics; Second Language Instruction; Semiotics; *Sociocultural Patterns; Speech Acts; Testing; Transfer of Training; Translation; Uncommonly Taught Languagest Vietnamese People IDENTIFIERS Ireland; Meain (Inis); Rumania ABSTRACT 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); "Orammatical 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); "Sme Sociolinguistic Obserqations 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)