Contents
Editorial 2
esse Matters
President’s Column: Testing, Helmut Bonheim 4
The Joys and Sorrows of TQA, Gordon Campbell 8
Some Thoughts on Teaching Quality Assessment in Europe, Norman Blake 11
Database Update 15
Scotland
Devolution and Scottish Culture: Setting a New Agenda, Richard J. Finlay 18
Postcolonial Subjects? Language, Narrative Authority
and Class in Contemporary Scottish Culture, Roderick Watson 21
Three Pieces, Tom Leonard 32
Three Articles and a Poem
Standard English: What It Isn’t, Peter Trudgill 35
Postmodern Woman In Search of a Self:
Julia Kristeva’s Strangers to Ourselves, Judit Friedrich 40
Poem Tony Harrison 43
The State of Art in the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor
and Metonymy and its Application to English Studies, Antonio Barcelona 45
Checklists
The Cognitive Theory of Metaphor and Metonymy, Antonio Barcelona 49
International Englishes and Language Policy, Robert Phillipson &
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 51
Reviews
Global English, Robert Phillipson 53
Electronic Dictionaries, Robert Clark 57
Henry James editions, Russell West 61
Teaching Literary Analysis, Isabel Durán 52
Computer Corner, Adam Piette 65
Reports
English Language and Literature in the Netherlands, J. Lachlan Mackenzie 68
The New British Library, Tim Armstrong 72
Reports from ESSE/4:
The European History of English Studies, Renate Haas & Baltz Engler 74
Postcolonial Ireland: Hyperreal Europe, Claire Connolly 76
The West and Its Others, Yonka Krasteva 79
Nomads, Immigrants, Exiles, Maria Teresa Chialant & Judith Molnar 81
Listings
Conference Announcements 82
Journals 90
ESSE Board Members 96