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influence of American television and the good quality of English/Canadian television programs. Among the francophone Quebecois, student status and degree of bilingualism create a tendency to listen to the English language TV programs. Radio programs, contrary to television programs, are essentially listened to in the native language of the auditors. The domain of books (Chapter 4) does not imply a very important linguistic interaction: The greater part of francophone and anglophone people read in their mother tongue; the "allophones" prefer English-written books. The interactions resulting from the vocational readings give an advan- tage to English. The cultural activities of the cinema and the theatre limit the interaction between anglophones and francophones. The members of the two communities prefer movies, plays, and other entertainment in their native languages; the "allophones" are consumers of English cultural productions.In the last chapter of Le francais et les medias, Beauchamp and Bouchard report the informants' linguistic judgements. They (the informants) are sensitive to the quality of the spoken and written language. They attach great importance to the orthography and syntax of the written media, and to the construction and pronunciation of sentences in the electronic media. As for the francophones, they affirm their liking for the French language and its preservation by using it at school, in business, in the media, and by making it the first language to be learned by each immigrant. Three main conclusions can be drawn from the reading of this book: first, the remarkable progres- sion in the use of the French-written media between the years 1971 and 1979; second, the weight of the English-speaking electronic media, particularly television; and last, a certain anxiety of the francophone people about their cultural identity. This is the third volume of the series on Spanish-English contrastive linguistics. Nine articles of varying quality and length are distributed into three categories: lexical semantics, testing, and culture contact and language change in the Caribbean. Part I, Studies in Lexical Semantics, includes four articles. Margarita Sufier, in her treatment of Spanish haber and English there-be, questions the prevalent trend of excluding definite modification from haber/there-be sentences as ungrammatical. She argues that existential sentences with definite modification do occur in everyday speech, and provides a theoretical framework (a grammar) in which sentences are interpreted in stages in order to arrive at the complete explanation of haber/there-be sentences. The second article, by John B. Jensen, attempts to describe the semantic systems of the verb pairs for come—go and ir—venir in English and Spanish, and proposes a model for contrasting them. Although the research was carried out with a questionnaire as opposed to conduct- ing a linguistic analysis of the informants' speech in everyday situations, Jensen's observations concerning the semantic distinctions in and between the two pairs of verbs of motion are significant. They have tremendous implications for the preparation of appropriate teaching materials. Anna Cruzado's study, the third article, examines the significant affective value of diminutive, augmen- tative, and pejorative suffixes in Spanish and their correspondences in English. In Spanish, these suffixes are highly productive and carry an emotional charge with them that can only be rendered in English by a careful selection of adjectives and nouns. Cruzado believes that, as linguists and educators, we should be able to use these contrastive data to teach language skills more effectively in both English and Spanish. The fourth article, by Virginia Stevens, looks at modals from the point of view of nuances between the various semantic categories, and suggests a specific format for teaching them. Stevens's study also attempts to determine whether students make more errors in those areas where English and Spanish are similar or in those areas where the two languages differ radically. There are some minor discrepancies between the examples provided in the Beber and Poder charts (99 and