TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- GENERAL LINGUISTICS -- LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE PRACTICE IN OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATIONS IN 19TH CENTURY FLANDERS -- EVALUATIVE ACTION AND THE NARRATIVIZATION OF MORALITY IN THE COMMUNITY OF BULLFIGHT AFICIONADOS -- REPRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH IN HONG KONG'S POSTCOLONIAL LANGUAGE PLANNING AND SOCIETAL ATTITUDES -- CAUSING ONESELF TO DO SOMETHING -- TRANSLATION QUALITY STANDARDS IN EUROPE -- SIGN LANGUAGES -- METONYMIC AND METAPHORICAL USES OF PROPER NAMES -- 'AGENT DISGUISING CONSTRUCTIONS' -- PHONETICS -- ITALIAN TV SPEECH -- INTRINSIC METHODS IN VOWEL NORMALIZATION -- AN ANALYSIS ON THE VOWEL DURATION IN THE BASQUE SPOKEN IN LEGORRETA -- POTENTIAL ASPECT AND THE ROLE OF TONE IN TWO VARIANTS OF ZAPOTEC -- DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION OF BROADCAST NEWS IN BASQUE AND SPANISH -- LEXICOLOGY -- NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK AND HOW TO FIND THEM? THE CASE OF LEXICAL ACCESS -- SPECIALISED MULTILINGUAL DATABASES -- THE ITALIAN MARITIME LEXICON AND THE ITALWORDNET SEMANTIC DATABASE -- CORPUS LINGUISTICS -- PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN ARGUMENT CORPUS -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF CORPORA -- NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING -- HUMAN AND VIRTUAL AGENTS INTERACTING IN THE VIRTUALITY CONTINUUM -- LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND CONTENT INTEROPERABILITY -- MULTILINGUAL TOPIC SEGMENTATION -- SEMANTIC WEB POWERED PORTAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- SYSTEMIC LINGUISTICS WITH APPLICATIONS -- DIFFERENT ISSUES IN THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTRONIC CUBAN BASIC SCHOOL DICTIONARY -- INCREASING THE SYNTACTICAL PARSE EFFICIENCY USING "STRONG RULES" -- PRONOMINAL CLITIC COMPOSITION AND SUBSUMPTION IN SPANISH -- INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN HOMOGENEOUS DOCUMENT SETS USING SYNTACTICAL PARSE INFORMATION -- FOREING LANGUAGES -- WRITING ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE AS MUCH CONCERNED WITH PROCESS AS WITH PRODUCT.

APPLIED LITERACY AND INQUIRY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION -- LEARNERS' PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY AND INTERACTION PATTERNS IN SYNCHRONOUS COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION -- MASS MEDIA -- JIMMY CARTER'S TRIP TO CUBA -- INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A MULTILINGUAL SUBTITLE GENERATION SYSTEM -- ART, ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE -- TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S VERBAL FOLKLORE -- TOWARDS BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF COMMON PURPOSE IN A RESEARCH PROGRAMME EXPLORING THE LITERACY AND EMPLOYMENT NEXUS -- TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION -- ALPHABETIC INDEX OF THE MAIN AUTHORS.