These issues include the following articles: "Portuguese Philology in Brazil" (Heitor Megale, Cesar Nardelli Cambraia); "Implications of Brazilian Portuguese Data for Current Controversies in Phonetics: Towards Sharpening Articulatory Phonology" (Eleonora Cavalconte Albano); "Morphological Studies in Brazil: Data and Issues" (Margarida Maria de Paula Basilio); "Functionalist Studies in Brazil" (Maria Helena de Moura Neves); "Thirty Years of Generative Grammar in Brazil" (Mary A. Kato, Jania Ramos); "Recent Trends in Brazilian Historical Linguistics" (Rosa Virginia Mattos e Silva); "The Development of Textual Linguistics in Brazil" (Ingedore G. Villaca Koch); "Text and Discourse Studies in Brazil" (Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros); "Sociolinguistic Overview: PEUL's Contribution" (Maria da Conceicao de Paiva, Maria Marta Pereira Scherre); "Brazilian Dialectology: Perspectives" (Suzan Alice Marcelino Cardoso); "Linguistics of Indigenous Languages in Brazil" (Lucy Seki); "Theoretical Outlines: A History of Thirty Years of Semantics in Brazil" (Roberta Pieres de Oliveira); "Pragmatic Studies in Brazil" (Kanavillil Rajagopalan); "Language Acquisition: A Survey of the Research of the Last Thirty Years" (Leticia Maria Sicuro Correa); "Studies on Bilingual Education and Schooling in Brazilian Contexts of Linguistic Minorities" (Marilda C. Cavalcanti); "Photographs of Applied Linguistics in the Field of Foreign Language in Brazil" (Luis Paulo da Moita Lopes); "English for Specific Purposes, English for General Business Purposes and English for Specific Business Purposes" (Orlando Vian Jr.); "The Structure of the Clause in Brazilian Indigenous Languages" (Marcus Aia, Bruna Franchetto, Yonne de Freitas Leite, Marilia Faco Soares, Marcia Damaso Vieira); "Some Notes on Procrastinate and Other Economy Matters" (Jairo Nunes); "Negation: Checking Theory and Linguistic Change" (Lorenzo Vitral); "The Interaction Synchrony/Diachrony in the Study of Syntax" (Angelica Furtado da Cunha); "On the Form of Portuguese Past Participle and the Status of Formal Features" (Maria Lucia Lobato); "Word Sets, Keywords, and Text Contents: An Investigation of Text Topic on the Computer" (Antonia P. Berber Sardinha); "Metalanguage as a Space of Interpretation: Terminology and Atomized Databases" (Clarinda Rodrigues Lucas); "Linguistics and Archaeology" (Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari);"Towards a Semiotics Theory" (Jose Luiz Fiorin); "A Comparative Study of Conference Abstracts" (Javier Garcia-Calvo); "Beginning Portuguese Corpus Linguistics: Exploring a Corpus To Teach Portuguese as a Foreign Language" (A. P. Berber Sardinha); "Some Reflections around a Text Type Psycholinguistic Concept" (Adair Bonini); "The Strategies of Focusing and the Syntax-Phonology Connection" (Carlos Alexandre Gocalves); and "Contribution to the Study of Pseudoprefix in Portuguese" (Paulo Mosanio Teixeira Duarte). Diagrams, tables, charts, and scholarly references appear throughout the articles. (KFT)