ABSTRACT
It is a pleasure for me to be discussant on these two chapters because I was born in Montreal, was an undergraduate at McGill, and, most of all, because the first social psychology course I ever took was with W. E. Lambert. That course was a major influence on my interest in social psychology and, more generally, on my interest in the relation among language, thought and society. So it is fun for me to be involved in discussing these chapters. Also, it is fun because of the impact of the work of both Lambert and Don Taylor on second-language learning—after all, how many people have done such important research that they name whole regions after them, as in Wally’s case with St. Lambert?
