LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE -- An attempt at structural criticism: Rigveda 10.129 -- Musicolinguistics in literary esthetics -- Aucassin and the Pilgrim of Limosin -- A Shona love poem -- Primicias estilisticas de P. G. Wodehouse -- The goals of literary analysis and a new definition of literature -- The structure of Navajo poetry -- Notes on the makeup of a proverb -- Linguistic and metrical constraints in verse - iambic and trochaic tetrameters of Pushkin -- Piers Plowman B. IX.: Further refinements of Inwitte -- Linguistic fundamentals of the meter of Beowulf -- Contrasting rhythms of old English and new English -- The position and function of linguistics in a theory of poetry -- Morgenstern's linguistic fantasies -- Typography, poems, and the poetic line -- Observations on Jakob Schaffner's literary language -- 'Style' as Chameleon: Remarks on the implications of transformational grammar and generative semantics for the concept of style -- Fate and choice in Malory's Arthurian tragedy -- SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS -- Samuel Johnson: Originator of usage lables -- English in Japan: Quotatives in informal bilingual speech -- Under the Hill -- Some innovations in vocabulary: The tongue of the Tirilones -- The sociolinguistic 'normalization' of the Jewish people -- The teacher taught the student English: An essay in applied linguistics -- Language ecology and the case of Faroese -- A partial black word list from East Texas -- Egyptian and Mischsprachen -- Syntactic arguments and role relationships: Are there some of the latter in any of the former? -- Cross-cultural communication through literature -- Notes on participant roles and grammatical categories in Hindi-Urdu sentences -- Toward a theory of applied linguistics -- Eine transatlantische Isoglosse -- A linguist looks at reading -- Toward a model of linguistic distance.

On the nature of phonic interference -- Nationalism and personal ambition in language choice -- The spread of English over immigrant languages in the U. S -- Distinctive features and articulation disorders -- Equivalents and explanations in bilingual dictionaries.