Cover: 'Geography Bewitched! or, a Droll Caricature Map of Scotland, 1794

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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