A collection of 21 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Searching for Linguistic Universals through Contrastive Analysis,""Oral Discourse and Contrastive Analysis: Towards a French vs. Finno-Scandinavian Model,""Cultural Effect on the Comprehensibility of Reading Texts,""The Application of Some Parameters of Textlinguistics on Contrastive Analysis,""The Influence of the First Language: An Analysis of Learners' Questions,""Questioning Strategies in English and Swedish Conversation,""Pragmatic Equivalence in Contrastive Studies: Requests in Polish and English,""Giving and Getting Directions: Cross-Language Interaction Between Native and Finnish Speakers of English,""A Pragmatic Account of Proper Names in English and Polish,""A Functional Model for the Description of Modality in Contrastive Analysis,""Pragmatic Aspects of Definite Determination Without 'Prior Mention' in English and Polish,""Prepositional Usage in English and Afrikaans: Differences in Spatial Perception,""Remarks on Pronominal Reference and Definiteness in French and Finnish,""Emphasis and Ellipsis,""The Object in German and English According to Dependency Grammar: A Contrastive Analysis,""English Loanwords in Estonian,""English Loanwords in Romanian,""On Lexis: The Swedish Learner and the Native Speaker Compared,""The Semantics of 'Average' and 'Competitor': Two Instances of Dizzy Business or Busy Dizziness,""Chain Compounds--Anglicisms in Finnish?", and "Aspects of Perception in Learning Second Language Vowel Quality." (MSE)