Proceedings of the Third Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, held October 15-17, 1981 at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Linguistics and Writing.- The Literate Writes and the NonLiterate Chants: Written Language and Ritual Communication in Sociolinguistic Perspective.- The Myth of Orality and Literacy.- Soviet Psycholinguistics: Implications for Teaching of Writing.- Universal Grammar and Composition: Relativization, Complementation, and Quantification.- Relationships: What Did I Write? What Did I Draw?.- The Pragmatic Structure of Rhetorical Maturity in the Sciences.- The Function of a Grammatical Alternation in 14 Surgical Reports.- Computers and Literacy.- Computerized Aids to Writing.- Computer-Ease: A Twentieth-Century Literacy Emergent.- A Computer-Aided Study of Confusion in Latin Morphology.- Linguistics and Reading.- Spelling, Reading, Language Variation.- Linguistics and/or Reading or Is Applied Linguistics a Caveat Emptor Technology?.- The Development of Verbal Reasoning: Pragmatic, Schematic and Operational Aspects.- Teaching Reading in the Inner City.- Early Reading Experiences: Some Linguistic Perspectives on Parent/Child Interaction in Book Sharing Situations.- A Propositional Analysis of Spanish Language Texts.- Second-Language Literacy.- Strategic Interaction from Texts: Converting Written Discourse into Spoken Conversation.- Word Frequency and Contextual Richness in ESL Word Identification.- Some Reflections on Error Analysis in the Speech of Near-Bilinguals whose Mother Tongue is Italian.- Non-Native Speakers of English and their Composition Abilities: A Review and Analysis.- French Verb Forms Simplified.- Discourse Content Structures in Beginning Spanish Learners.