Introduction to the special issue “multilingual students and language education policy in Europe”

Fishing Capacity in Europe: Special Issue Introduction

Over the last two decades, management of fishing capacity has been a central focus of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) of the European Union (EU). At the global level, the capacity issue was given high priority on the political agenda by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the late 1990s. A series of studies and meetings aimed at defining and measuring capacity e...

Figured Worlds and Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Identity and Self are concepts that are not only constituted by the labels—‘‘smart girl’’, ‘‘delinquent’’, ‘‘incompetent’’, or ‘‘beloved teacher’’—that people place on themselves and others, especially in schools. Identity is also very much about how people come to understand themselves, how they come to ‘‘figure’’ who they are, through the ‘‘worlds’’ that they participate in and how they relat...

Language and birdsong: Introduction to the special issue.

By most accounts, language is uniquely human. No other species has a communicative system with such expressive power, one that allows us to transmit a seemingly endless set of meanings to our conspecifics. Every sentence we produce is composed of smaller linguistic units put together in a rule-governed manner. The standard view is that sentences are put together using syntactic rules that defin...

Language and Speech Audiovisual Prosodyy Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation

There are two sides to natural language processing. On the one hand, work in natural language understanding is concerned with the mapping from some surface representation of linguistic material expressed as speech or text--to an underlying representation of the meaning carried by that surface representation. But there is also the question of how one maps from some underlying representation of m...