Papers in linguistics in this issue include: "Aspects logico-semantiques de la metaphore" ("Logico-Semantic Aspects of the Metaphor") (Michel le Guern); "Metaphore et travail lexicale" ("Metaphor and Lexical Work") (Georges Ludi); "Aspects linguistiques et pragmatiques de la metaphore: anomalie semantique, implicitation conversationnelle et repertoire metaphorique" ("Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of the Metaphor: Semantic Anomaly, Conversational Implicitness, and Metaphoric Repertoire") (Jacques Moeschler); "Comparaisons litterales, comparaisons non litterales et metaphores" ("Literal Comparisons, Non-Literal Comparisons, and Metaphors") (Anne Reboul); "Reference temporelle et deixis: vers une approche milnerienne" ("Temporal Reference and Deixis: Towards a Milnerian Approach") (Moeschler); "Le systeme des pronoms personnels en francais contemporain: le probleme de la reference" ("The System of Personal Pronouns in Contemporary French: The Problem of Reference") (Reboul); "Bilinguisme, exolinguisme et acquisition: role de L1 dans l'acquisition de L2" ("Bilingualism, Exolingualism, and Acquisition: Role of L1 in L2 Acquisition") (Bernard Py); and "La dichotomie synchronie-diachronie chez Saussure et Benveniste: fondements et reformulations" ("The Synchrony-Diachrony Dichotomy in Saussure and Benveniste: Foundations and Reformulations") (Anne-Christine Girod-Doebelin). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)