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Papers on language research in this volume include the following: "Temporalite en francais de France. Differences dans la conceptualisation du temps et son expression dans un texte narratif oral" ("Differences in the Conceptualization of Time and Its Expression in Oral Narratives") (Natalia Dankova); "La traduction des textes womanist: le cas de 'La couleur poupre' d' Alice Walker" ("The Translation of Womanist Texts: The Case of 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker") (Chantal Gagnon); "Traduction de la literature francais en Chine: survol historique et reflexions theoriques" ("The Translation of French Literature into Chinese: A Historical Survey and Reflections on the Theories") (Dazhi Wang); "La transmission orale de consignes. La nature de la tache a executer comme facteur d'influence de l'organisation discursive" ("The Oral Transmission of Punctuation. The Nature of the Tasks of Executing Them as a Factor of Influence from Discoursive Organization") (Annie Bergeron); "Parler du tiers absent: simple information ou commerage?" ("To Speak of the Third Person Who Is Absent: Simple Information or Gossip?") (Veronique Perron); "Syllabification unique et chute des consonnes finales en francais de Montreal" ("The Unique Syllabification and Dropping of Final Consonants in Montreal French") (Alain Theriault); "Le systeme vocalique du francais quebecois: imaginaire linguistique des locuteurs" ("The Vowel System of Quebec French: Locators that Are Linguistically Imaginative") (Anne-Marie Beaudoin-Begin); "Apport des outils informatiques a la cineradiologie" ("Contributions of Information Technology to the Radio Cinema") (Johanna-Pascale Roy); "A la recherche des enonces definitoires dans les textes specializes" ("Research on Definitive Enunciations in Specialized Texts") (Marie-Pierre Hetu); "L'esperanto: Du mythe a la realite" ("Esperanto: From Myth to Reality") (Natalia Dankova); "L'evolution de la societe vue a travers les mots et les sens nouveaux du Petit Larousse illustre: 1996-2000" ("The Evolution of the Society in Terms of Words with New Meanings in the Dictionary The Illustrated Petit Larousse: 1996-2000") (Caroline Campeau); and "Les verbes de perception en francais: une analyse des entrees de dictionnaires" ("The Verbs of Perception in French: An Analysis of Dictionary entrees") (Sophie Piron). Each paper contains references. (AA)

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: Pour une comparaison des voyelles nasals du Quebec et du Haut-Jura: observations, methodologie et outils infomatiques (A Comparison of Quebec and Haut-Jura's Nasal Vowels: Observations, Methodologies, and Instrumentation) (Vincent Arnaud and Claude Paradis); Le negociation du sens en classe de francais langue etrangere (The Negotiation of Meaning in French as a Foreign Language Classrooms) (Ioana Belu and Luc Colles); Le back-channel dans le discours procedural (Back-channeling in Procedural Discourse) (Annie Bergeron and Diane Vincent); La redaction d'un hypertexte: nouveaux parameters, nouveaux defis (The Writing of Hypertext: New Parameters, New Challenges) (Monique Cloutier); CHILDES: un logiciel d'analyse de donnees linguistique produites par des enfants en L2 (CHILDES: A Corpora and Program to Analyze Child L2 Linguistic Output) (Antonella Conte); La levee d'ambiguites mophologiques par grammaires locales: la systeme Intex (The Level of Morphological Ambiguity in Localized Grammar: The Intex System) (Anne Dister); L'adaptation phonologique des emprunts lexicaux anglais en japonais et l'influence des facteurs non phonologiques (The Phonological Adaptations of Borrowed English Lexical Items in Japanese and the Influence of Non-Phonological Factors) (Marie-Josee Goulet); Variation geographique du francais au Canada: etude et problemes d'identification de regionalismes lexicaux (Geographical Variation in the French of Canada: Studies and Problems of Regional Lexical Identification) (Caroline Laflamme, Frederick Gagne and Gilles Gosselin); Lieux de conflit linguistique: les services bilingues a Moncton (Areas of Linguistic Conflict: The Bilingual Services in Monkton) (Melanie Le Blanc); Etude des elements prosodiques influencant la perception des fins de tours de parole (The Study of the Prosodic Elements that Influence How the End of a Interlocutor1s Speech Turn Is Perceived) (Marie Josee Lepage); La Mouvement Wh- et WMF (multiple Wh-fronting) in russe (Multiple Wh-fronting in Russian) (Denis Liakin); Emprunts et alternances de code entre le makuxi, langue caribe et le portugais bresilien (Code Switching and Alternation Between Makuxi, Language of the Caribbean, and Brazilian Portuguese) (Ron MacDonell, with the collaboration of Denise Deshaies and Claude Paradis); Les founction du discours rapportte dans les soncersations de tous les jours (The Function of Discourse in Relation to Daily Conversation) (Sophie Marais and Diane Vincent); La langue dans les echanges avec les Etats-Unis: What's the Problem? (The Language of Exchange with the United States: What's the Problem?) (Julie Moisan and Conrad Ouellon); La phonetique differenciee de l'anglais langue etrangere et strategies d'apprentissage (Strategies for Teaching the Differential Phonetics of English as a Foreign Language) (Nuzha Moritz-Abubakr); De l'inexistence des locutions (On the non-existence of locutors) (Francois Parent); La norme phonetique du francais quebecois: les attitudes des Quebecois par rapport a leur francais (The Phonetic Norm of the French of Quebec: The Attitudes of People from Quebec in Relation to Their French) (Kristin Reinke); Le paysage linguistique a Kaedi (Mauritanie) (The Linguistic Landscape of Kaedi [Maritime]) (Abdourahmane Sakho); Aphorisme et sa porjection a la surface textuelle (Aphorism and Its Projection to Written Text) (Yahor Tsedryk); Une exploration du lien entre la langue, la culture et l'identite (An Exploration of the Connections Between Language, culture, and Identity) (Sheley Tulloch and Conrad Ouellon); and De la theorie linguistique a la pratique: le transfert des connaissances (On the Theory of Applied Linguistics: The Transfer of Knowledge) (Panel of CIRAL). Each paper, except for the last, contains references. (AA)

Papers on language research include: "L'expression de l'opposition en Latin" ("The Expression of Opposition in Latin" (Claude Begin); "Le francais de l'Abitibi: characteristiques phonetiques et origine socio-geographique des locuteurs" ("The French of Abitibi: Phonetic Characteristics and Socio-Geographic Origin of Speakers") (Chantal Boissonneault); "L'Inversion du sujet dans les phrases affirmatives a verbe simple en anglais moderne" ("Subject Inversion in Simple-Verb Affirmative Sentences in Modern English") (Andre Bourcier, Patrick Duffley); "Le Comportement particulier de /h/ dans les emprunts" ("The Behavior of /h/ in Loan Words") (Frederick Brault); "Anxiete et croyances langagieres chez des apprenants d'une langue seconde au niveau universitaire" ("Anxiety and Beliefs of Second Language Learners at the University Level") (Diane Coulombe); "Probleme de l'agent de l'infinitif et du gerondif en anglais apres 'propose, mean et intend'" ("The Problem of the Agent of the Infinitive and Gerund in English After 'Propose, Mean and Intend'") (Jean-Francois Joubert); "Adaptations phonologiques et influence de la graphie dans les emprunts lexicaux francais en anglais canadien" ("Phonological Adaptations and Influence of Writing in French Loan Words in Canadian English") (Annie-Karine Lamoureux); "Enseignement, apprentissage et semantique conceptuelle: le cas de l'accord du participe passe en francais ecrit" ("Teaching, Learning, and Conceptual Semantics: The Case of Agreement in the Past Participle in Written French") (Pierre Larrivee); "Les Themes discursifs ont-ils un sexe?" ("Do Discourse Themes Have a Sex?") (Sophie Marais); "Les consequences linguistiques de l'ALENA et de la 'Charte de la language francaise' sur le milieu quebecoise des affaires" ("Linguistic Consequences of Alena and the 'Chart of the French Language' on the Quebec Business Community") (Julie Moisan); "Variation particuliere de l'adverbe 'tout'" (Variation of the Adverb 'Tout'") (Francois Parent); "Usage et visage des langues en Afrique" ("Use and Appearance of Languages in Africa") (Abdourahmane Sakho); "Les Reseaux semantiques et l'automatisation linguistique" ("Semantic Networks and Computational Linguistics") (Arman Tajarobi); and "L'allongement penultieme des voyelles /i y u/ en francais quebecois" ("Penultimate Lengthening of the Vowels /i y u/ in Quebec French") (Benoit Tardif). Each paper contains references. (MSE)

Conference papers on group methods of speech therapy include: "Donnees nouvelles sur les competences du jeune enfant. Proposition de nouveaux concepts" (New Data on the Competences of the Young Child. Proposition of New Concepts) (Hubert Montagner); "Interactions sociales et apprentissages: quels savoirs en jeu" (Social Interactions and Teaching: What Knowledge Is In Play?) (Marie-Jeanne Liengme Bessire); "Analyser les interactions en classe: quelques enjeux theoriques et reperes methodologiques" (Analyzing Classroom Interactions: Some Theoretical Stakes and Methodological Benchmarks) (Lorenza Mondada); "Arrets sur image: essai de reflexions theorique a propos d'une pratique de logotherapie de groupe" (Stopping on a Picture: An Essay of Theoretical Reflections on Practice in Group Speech Therapy) (Francine Rosenbaum, Dominique Bovet, Valerie Jequier-Thiebaud); "Ajustements mutuels des interlocuteurs: conversations avec une patiente souffrant des sequelles comportementales d'un traumatisme cranien" (Mutual Adjustment of Interlocutors: Conversations with a Patient Suffering from Behavioral Consequences of a Head Injury) (Claire Peter); "Jeu symbolique et strategies d'elaboration des dialogues" (Symbolic Play and Strategies of Dialogue Elaboration) (Cecile Martin, Solange von Ins, Genevieve de Weck); "Groupes de logopedie-psychometricite: quelques reflexions a propos des indications" (Speech Therapy/Psychometric Groups: Some Reflections on Indications) (Christine Mahieu, Sylvie Moine, Katharina Turnill); "Les interactions therapeutiques a travers le jeu symbolique dans un groupe d'enfants pre-scolaires" (Therapeutic Interactions Through Symbolic Play in a Preschool Children's Group) (Marie-Claire Cavin); "A propos du psychodrame de groupe d'enfants" (Concerning Children's Group Psychodrama) (Raymond Traube, German Gruber); and "Competences orthographiques chez des eleves presentant des difficultes dans les apprentissages scolaires" (Spelling Competencies in Students Presenting Learning Difficulties in School) (George Hoefflin, Annie Cherpillod). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words; language of news reporting; French-Brazilian Portuguese word borrowing; bilingual education; use of the term "OK" in Montreal French; attributive function of transitive verbs; language planning in Africa; terminology in translation; descriptive vs. prescriptive linguistics (in English); recording laughter and closure in a sociolinguistic interview; clitics; vowels in Quebec French; analyzing oral spontaneous discourse; French verb value; code-switching in Ontario; Acadian child and adolescent language; the cluster condition in Spanish; nasal vowels in Kinyarwanda; variability as a functional element in communication; the vocabulary of computer-assisted instruction; language rhythm in Quebec French; practical problems in linguistic research methodology; North American English borrowing from Canadian French. Most papers contain references. (MSE)

The conference papers from a colloquium on issues in bilingualism and biculturalism include: "Le bilinguisme et biculturalisme: essai de definition" ("Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Attempt at Definition") (Francois Grosjean); "La variation individuelle dans l'acquisition d'une langue seconde" ("Individual Variation in Second Language Acquisition") (Harriet Jisa); "Un bilinguisme particulier: francais/langue des signes" ("A Specific Bilingualism: French/Sign Language") (Claire Dunant-Sauvin, Jean-Francois Chavaillaz); "Identites linguistiques et contacts des cultures: quelques remarques a propos des statuts symboliques" ("Linguistic Identities and Culture Contact: Some Remarks Concerning Symbolic Rules") (Jean Widmer); "Pratiques bilingues d'adolescents issus de l'immigration en France et en Angleterre" ("Bilingual Practices of Adolescents Born to Immigrants in France and England") (Nassira Merabti, Daniele Moore); "Reflexions cliniques autour des difficultes de realisation articulatoire de trois enfant bilingues" ("Clinical Reflections on Articulatory Problems of Three Bilingual Children") (Jacqueline Girard-Fresard); "Comment un pays monolingue voit-il le bilinguisme?" ("How Does a Bilingual Country See Bilingualism?") Angela Veraguth-Joaquim); "Reconnaitre les atouts linguistiques des enfants bilingues pre-lecteurs" ("Recognizing the Linguistic Capabilities of Pre-Reading Bilingual Children") (Christiane Perregaux); "Surdite: deficience sensorielle innee et mutite linguistique acquise--(re)apprentissages langagiers et construction d'un sujet sourd parlant" ("Deafness: Innate Sensory Deficiency and Acquired Linguistic Mutism--Language (Re)learning and Construction of a Speaking Deaf Subject") (Agnes Millet); "'Mon fils a un probleme a la tete'/'Ma fille a une sale tete, un sale charactere' Qu'est-ce que cela a a voir avec l'ethnopsychiatrie?" ("'My Son Has a Problem in His Head'/'My Daughter Has a Bad Mind, a Bad Character' What Does This Have To Do with Ethnopsychiatry?") (Marie-Pierre Maystre); "Multiculturalisme et langage. Quelques aspects de la prise en charge d'une famille migrante presentant un mutisme electif" ("Multiculturalism and Language. Several Aspects of the Treatment of a Migrant Family Presenting with Elective Mutism") (Francine Rosenbaum, Raymond B. Traube); "Construction du soi et langue maternelle" ("Construction of the Self and Native Language") (Marie-Odile Goubier-Boula); and "Logotherapie de groupe et utilisation du genogramme dans un groupe d'enfants migrants: elements de reflexion a propos d'une pratique" (Group Speech Therapy and Use of the Genogram in a Group of Migrant Children: Reflections on Practice") (Valerie Jequier Thiebaud, Francine Rosenbaum). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and phonological alternations in the French lexicon; second language learning in the Basque Country: Euskera, Basque language, versus foreign languages; an experiential approach to a second language conversation course; the ambisyllabic quality of intervocalic consonants in Quebec French; brain hemisphere preference and treatment of information by the interpreter; expression of scientific facts, through use of verbs, in several specialized texts; an onomastic approach to differential analysis of counter-argumentative connectors in French, English, and Spanish; a model for understanding literal and non-literal language with a common language mechanism (paper in English); moraic theories and syllabic structures; phonological tendencies as indications of a dynamic synchrony in the Black English spoken in Georgia; and phonological constraints and English loan words in Quebec French. (MSE)

These articles on scaffolding in language and speech pathology/therapy are included in this issue: "Strategies d'etayage avec des enfants disphasiques: sont-elles specifiques?" ("Scaffolding Strategies for Dysphasic Children: Are They Specific?") (Genevieve de Weck); "Comparaison des strategies discursives d'etayage dans un conte et un recit d'experiences oraux" ("Comparison of Scaffolding Discourse Strategies in an Oral Story and Personal Narrative") (Marie-Claude Rosat); "Questions ouvertes/questions fermees: une dichotomie qui appelle une analyse critique" ("Open Questions/Closed Questions: A Dichotomy that Calls for Critical Analysis") (Shirley Vinter, Charles Bried); "Interactions avec des enfants migrants en contexte logopedique: quels etayages?" ("Interactions with Migrant Children in the Speech Therapy Context: What Kinds of Scaffolding?") (Sandra Galli Cornali); "Contributions maternelles et paternelles au developpement des representations symboliques et categorielles des objets par les jeunes enfants" ("Maternal and Paternal Contributions to the Development of Symbolic and Categoric Representation of Objects by Young Children") (Florence Labrell); "De la variation de l'etayage logopedique comme outil therapeutique" ("Variation of Speech Therapy Scaffolding as a Therapeutic Tool") (Douchka Gaillard); "L'adaptation langagiere de differents intervenants en interaction avec un aphasique" ("Linguistic Adaptation of Different Therapists in Interaction with an Aphasic") (Helene Perren); "L'evaluation formative a l'ecole: quelle place pour la regulation interactive?" (Formative Evaluation in School: What Place for Interactive Regulation") (Yviane Rouiller); "Quelques considerations sur l'etayage dans une situation d'evaluation particuliere: le jeu symbolique" ("Some Considerations Concerning Scaffolding in a Special Evaluation Situation: Symbolic Play") (Mireille Rodi, Cecile Moser); "'Suivez le guide'...L'acquisition de routines de lecture en langue 1 et langue 2" ("'Follow the Guide'...Acquisition of Reading Routines in First and Second Languages") (Matthias Marschall); and "Apprendre a raconter? Comment lisons-nous les textes des auteurs eleves?" ("Learn to Tell Stories? How Do We Read the Texts of Student Authors?") (Frederic Francois). All papers are in French, with English abstracts. (MSE)

Research papers on the relationship between oral and written language include: "Une distinction bien fragile: oral/ecrit" ("A Fragile Distinction: Oral/Written") (Francoise Gadet); "Oral et ecrit dans les representations des enseignants et dans les pratiques quotidiennes de la classe de francais" ("Oral and Written Language in Teachers' Presentations and in Daily Practice in the French Class") (Jean-Francois de Pietro, Martine Wirthner); "La lecture a d'autres: un oral public a partir de l'ecrit" ("Reading to Others: Public Speaking Based on Written Language") (Joaquim Dolz, Janine Dufour, Sylvie Haller, Bernard Schneuwly); "Discours oraux--discourse ecrits: quelles relations...au visuel?" ("Oral Discourse--Written Discourse: What Relationship...To the Visual?") (Alain Brossard);"Acces au langage et acces au recit" ("Access to Language and Access to Narrative") (Philippe Meirieu); "Approche linguistique de l'illettrisme" ("Linguistic Approach to Illiteracy") (Dominique Morcrette); "Etude linguistique du discours narratif sur images d'adultes illettres" ("Linguistic Study of Narrative Discourse Based on Pictures in Illiterate Adults") (Frederique Brin); "Interactions verbales en acces a la litteratie" ("Verbal Interactions in Literacy Learning") (J.-M. Oderic Delefosse); "Conscience linguistique et traitement de l'information ecrite" ("Linguistic Consciousness and Treatment of Written Information") (Jean Emile Gombert, Clara Martinot, Isabelle Nocus); "Representations sur les pratiques sociales de l'ecrit et apprentissage de la lecture" ("Notes on Social Practice Surrounding Writing and the Learning of Reading") (Genevieve de Weck, Nathalie Niederberger); "Debusquer l'auteur d'un texte derriere l'absence d'ecrit" ("Understanding the Concept of Author") (Francoise Cornaz); "Les enigmes d'un acces au langage ecrit bloque chez un enfant migrant" ("Enigmas of Blocked Access to Written Language in a Migrant Child") (Francine Rosenbaum, Stephanie Evard); and "De l'agir a l'ecrit chez les jeunes adolescents en institution: un regard pluridisciplinaire" ("From Acted Out to Written Out Among Institutionalized Adolescents: An interdisciplinary Approach") (Jean-Marie Villat, Raymond B. Traube, Daniele Gabus, Caroline Bertoldo, Nicole Kraenbuhl). Individual articles contain references. (MSE)

The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th centuries; language attitudes and politics of bilingual Cameroon; spontaneous nasalization; atmospheric verb constructions and the choice of subject; the grammar of the Smurfs; linguistics in literary translation; verbal phonology of Inor; stylistic distortion in translation; Quebec French in the language chronicles of Abbott Narcisse Desgagne; use of trademarks in common language; Quebec regionalisms and the Canadian Bilingual Dictionary; the grammatical and the logical in the study of syntax; no one, nothing, and variation; the distinction between syllabus and curriculum; representation and derivation in morphology; vocabulary out of the closet; lack of definition in expressions of quantity; adaptation and importation of English segments into Quebec French; grammar and interference in germanophone Lorraine; objective and subjective in declension; prosodic markers in Spanish; relative object constructions in child language; the 1908 story "Rectification du vocabulaire" by Henri Roullaud; phonology and lexicology of French loans to Kinyarwanda; a new model of semantics, the "Wheel of Meaning"; automatic recognition of hyponyms; accent in Quebec French; the discourse marker "disons" in Quebec oral French; measuring second language reading comprehension; and the nature of the French participle. (MSE)

Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of terminology; speech pathology and the right brain hemisphere; translating Spanish pronunciation to French; operators and child language competence; prosodic difficulties and the right hemisphere; nasalization in Inor; language planning in Guinea; intrinsic vowel frequency in discourse; pharmacy terminology; intonation patterns in back-channel communication; aphorisms and proverbs in daily conversation; borrowing and variations in adolescent speech in New Brunswick; second language reading; relative propositions in Acadian children's oral language; the language chronicles of Etienne Blanchard; microprosody and discourse type; syllabic adaptation of French borrowing in Kinyarwanda; adjectival quantifiers in Quebec French; modern English advertising grammar; comparison of sung vowels and spoken vowels; influence of the francophone Voyageurs' vocabulary on North American English; past participle agreement in one rule; problems of polysemy; syntactic analysis; homosemy and polysemy; plural of combined words; French head-driven phrase structure grammar; semantics of metaphors; negative quantifiers and double negation; definition of phrasemes; communicative structure of French causative utterances; and a plenary session summary. (MSE)

A discussion of the mechanism of totalitarian indoctrination institutionalized in the Romanian educational system focuses on verbal interaction in school and school-related situations before the revolution of December 1989. Pragmatic analysis of the political language used in a variety of academic contexts (political science, political education, ideological instruction for political science teachers, political meetings, and politically-based student organizations) suggests that this language is characterized by the breaking of discourse rules at three levels: discourse, speech act, and textualization of discourse. Further, youth are manipulated by a process of engagement from the early school years. In the long run, these methods have proven ineffectual. It is the students who undertook the revolution and refuted the doctrine imposed by the dictatorship. The very manner in which the totalitarian discourse functions and the weakness of the manipulation strategies used in the academic situation are at fault for the failure. Defense mechanisms adopted by parents and teachers, such as cooperative academic and scholarly projects, have also been important, creating lines of communication and exchange parallel to those imposed by the authorities. (MSE)

Papers from the conference on linguistic anomaly include: "La definition interactive de la deviance en situation exolingue et bilingue" ("The Interactive Definition of Deviation in Exolinguistic and Bilingual Situations") (Bernard Py); "La negociation ratee: pratiques sociales et methodes interactives du traitement de la deviance dans un 'talk show'" ("Negotiation Gone Awry: Social Practices and Interactive Methods of Treatment of Deviation in a Talk Show") (Cecilia Oesch-Serra); "Nommer l'autre: une etude des references a l'autre dans des conversations exolingues" ("Naming the Other: A Study of References to the Other in Exolinguistic Conversations") (Marion Perrefort); "Traitement des deviances au-dela du domaine morpho-syntactique dans l'enseignement des langues etrangeres" ("Treatment of Deviations in the Morphosyntactic Domain in the Teaching of Foreign Languages") (Gerard Merkt); "Langage deviant et orthophonie: l'exemple des dysphasies" ("Deviant Language and Pronunciation Instruction: The Example of Dysphasics"): Genevieve de Weck); "Faits deviants et tri des observables" ("Deviant Facts and the Sorting of Observables") (Marie-Jose Reichler-Beguelin): "La deviance de la suffixation en francais est-elle structurelle?" ("Is Suffix Deviation in French Structural?") (Amr Helmy Ibrahim); "Autour des relatives non standard" ("Concerning Non-Standard Relatives") (Joel Gapany, Denis Apotheloz); "Systemes experts et reseaux neuronaux: a propos de la deviance" ("Expert Systems and Neuron Networks: A Propos of Deviation") (Henri Madec); "Rabelais est-il un ecrivain deviant?" ("Is Rabelais a Deviant Writer?") (Andre Gendre); "Rabelais et la norme lexicale" ("Rabelais and the Lexical Norm") (Zygmunt Marzys); "L'intonation qui fait devier la conversation" ("Intonation That Derails Conversation") (Elisabeth Lhote); and "Le traitement des donnees linguistiques non standard. A propos du lexique commun franc-comtois/romand" ("The Treatment of Non-Standard Linguistic Data. A Propos of the Common Lexicon of Franche-Compte/Romansch") (Jean-Paul Colin). (MSE)

Papers, all in French, presented at a conference on linguistics include: "Machine Translation: Historic Aspects" (Ghada Attieh); "Translation and Conditioning" (Stephanie Bedard); "Semantic or Pre-Semantic Structures? From Perception to Causation" (Denise Belanger); "Presentation of Poetry Sung in Maroc" (Samira Belyazid); "There Is 'la' and 'la'--A Prosodic Study of the Discourse Particle 'la' in Quebec French" (Monique Demers); "The Oral Introspective Protocol in Reading: Testing and Refinements" (Linda de Serres); "Language Planning in Morocco" (Malika Ech-Chadli); "Semantic-pragmatic Description of the Connectors 'Car- Parce Que- Puisque'" (Odette Gagnon); "What Is the Meaning of a Word?" (Rene Gingras); "Left Dislocation by Anaphor: Preliminary Results" (Christian Guilbaut);"Factory Brands in the Domain of Medicines--Linguistic Acceptability: Euphemisms" (Benoit Leblanc); "Analysis of Fluidity in the Second Language" (Frederic Masse); "Analysis of Constructions using 'Etre Pour' in Quebec French" (Linda Pepin); and "Glottalization in Quebec French" (Mostafa Shoul). (MSE)

The twenty-eight papers that make up the second part of the proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign language teaching and linguistic theory: German culture and civilization; sexism in language; bilingual education; bilingualism and language assessment; French language, history and culture; foreign languages and international education; study abroad; Hispanic culture, history, literature and civilization; English loanwords in the Couxhobor dialect; an interdisciplinary linguistics program; historical development of languages; semantics; teaching culture; use of audio visual aids in vocabulary building; micro-teaching; using the radio; testing techniques; and developing teacher competencies. (AMH)

This publication presents 20 conference papers in French and German on aspects of linguistic research. Papers include: "Objectivite et subjectivite dans la connaissance du langage" (Mahmoudian); "Focalisation et antifocus"(Bearth); "Remarques sur la notion d''etymologie populaire'"(Chambon); "Sur la construction serielle en malgache"; (Fugier) "Ein Schichtungsmodell der Kompetenz, als Hilfe fur den Ueberblick uber die gesamte Sprachverwendung"(Glinz); "Une mesure de l'integration d'un element a un systeme" (Jolivet); "La convention X et la structure des unites discursives" (Rubattel); "Codification phonetique de noms de famille" (Vater); "Ambiguite, malentendu et activite paradiscursive" (Berthoud); "Apprendre a expliquer" (de Gaulmyn); "Pertinence et conversation"; (Moeschler);"Syntaxe, pragmatique, stylistique" (Reboul); "Konfirmandenunterricht..tout de meme! Les procedes de transcodage en conversation bilingue et exolingue" (Oesch-Serra); "Corpus oraux et edition: Quelle transcription pour quelle lecture?" (Rittaud-Hutinet); "Malentendu et communication" (Weil); "Aspects pragmatiques de l'emploi des circonstants" (Wuest); "Neocodage et discours de la presse: Le mot compose dans le quotidien suisse-romand 'Le Matin'" (Munch); "A propos de l'identite linguistique" (de Latour); "De la cooperation a l'ajustement collaboratif polylogal dans les cours de langues" (Murphey); and "Analyse morpho-syntaxique du francais et l'enseignement assiste par ordinateur" (Renard). (MSE)

Student papers presented at a sociolinguistics conference include: "La variation phonologique [d'une voyelle] a Hull"; "La force illocutoire des pronoms personnels 'je' et 'tu' en tant qu'insignes des places d'ou parlent les femmes et les hommes"; "L'emploi des modes indicatif et subjonctif dans le francais parle de la ville de Quebec"; "A Study of the (-ing) Variable in the Ottawa Male Community"; "An Application of Correspondence Analysis to the Multiple Variant Problem"; "Une etude des qualificateurs, intensificateurs et phrases encloses par rapport a la differenciation linguistique selon le sexe"; "Organisation conversationnelle en situation de plurilinguisme: les choix linguistiques des italophones de Montreal"; "'Pi' interrogatif en quebecois"; "Analyse parametrique de la chute du /s/ en espagnol"; "Lexical Variation in the Speech of Four Chinese Speakers"; "Marqueurs de discours et fonction discursive des narrations"; "Variation phonetique dans l'emploi des pronoms de troisieme personne en francais quebecois"; "L'alternance entre les determinants demonstratifs ['ce et cette'] en francais parle a Montreal"; and "A la recherche des diphtongues nasales du francais parle a Quebec". (MSE)

Papers from the linguistics colloquium address a variety of topics in linguistic theory and language research, most in French. Topics include: objectivity and subjectivity in understanding language; focalization in conversational language; the notion of "popular etymology"; serial construction in Malagasy; linguistic competence (in German); measuring the integration of an element in a linguistic system; discourse analysis; phonetic linkages among family names; ambiguity, misunderstanding, and paradiscursive activity; learning to explain; pertinence and conversation; syntax, pragmatics, and stylistics; bilingual discourse; transcription of oral language corpori; neologisms and the press; linguistic identity; cooperation, adjustment, and collaboration in language class; and morphosyntactic analysis of French and computer-assisted instruction. (MSE)