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This collection of articles on second language learning includes: "Action, langage et discours. Les fondements d'une psychologie du langage" ("Action, Language, and Discourse. Foundations of a Psychology of Language") (Jean-Paul Bronckart); "Contextes socio-culturels et appropriation des languages secondes: l'apprentissage en milieu social et la creolisation" ("Socio-Cultural Contexts and Second Language Acquisition: Learning in a Social Setting and Creolization") (Daniel Veronique); "Role des reseaux sociaux dans le maintien de la langue maternelle, dans le developpement bilingue et dans le developpement de la litteracie" ("Role of Social Networks in Native Language Maintenance, in Bilingual Development, and in Literacy Development") (Josiane Hamres); "De l'oral a l'ecrit en francais langue etrangere: les procedes d'integration discursive" ("From Oral to Written Language in French as a Second Language: The Processes of Discourse Integration") (Robert Bouchard); "Analyse conversationnelle et recherche sur l'acquisition" ("Conversational Analysis and Research on Acquisition") (Ulrich Krafft, Ulrich Dausendschon-Gay); "Communication exolingue et contextes d'appropriation: le continuum acquisition/apprentissage" ("Exolinguistic Communication and Contextes of Acquisition: The Acquisition/Learning Continuum") (Remy Porquier); and "Representations metalinguistiques des apprenants, des enseignants et des linguistes: un defi pour la didactique" ("Metalinguistic Manifestations of Learners, Teachers, and Linguists: A Challenge for Teaching") (Anne Trevise). Individual articles contain references. (MSE)

The following papers were presented at the conference (titles are translated from the French): "Linguistic Approaches to Verbal Interaction and Its Context" (Jean-Francois de Pietro); "Pragmatic Approaches to the Rehabilitation of Aphasia Patients" (Marie-Pierre de Partz); "Contributions of Communication Development Theories: Limits of Their Application in Reading Therapy with Multi-Handicapped Children" (Agnes Toscanelli); "Contributions of Conversation Analysis in the Practice of Reading Therapy: What Is Revealed through Analyses of Conversations Bringing Together an Aphasic Subject and Different Speakers in Different Situations?" (Manuela Gauthier-Mattiello); "A Communication Situation. Aphasics and Advertising Images" (Dominique Labourel and others); "Bilingualism and Language Difficulties" (Christine Othenin-Girard); "For or Against an Analysis of Persuasive Text Forms" (Marie-Claude Rosat); "A Psycho-Social Perspective on the Interactions between Specialist and Clients: The Example of the Reading Consultation" (Michele Grossen); "Rumor, Pedagogy, Rehabilitation: The Two Poles in the Exchange 'Sachant-Ignorant'" (Pierre Marc); "On Some Conversational Slips in the Research Interview" (Marinette Matthey); "Representational and Communicative Aspects of the Emergence of Language" (Sylvia Krapf-Moine and Pascale Marro); "Language Delay and Characteristics of Maternal Language (Bernadette Pierart); "Linguistic Analysis of Mother-Deaf Child Verbal Interactions: The Role of the Mother's Imitation of Sounds Produced by the Child" (Shirley Vinter); "From the Desire to Tell to the Need to Speak" (Francois Cornaz and others); "Language and Interaction in Speech Therapy Groups Directed by Two Therapists" (Danielle Gabus and Martine Parel); and "Languages of the Therapist and Languages of the Child: The Therapeutic Coupling" (Raymond B. Traube). (MSE)

Articles in this issue include the following: "Representations sociales et discours. Questions epistemologiques et methodologiques" (Social Representations and Discourse. Questions of Epistemology and Methodology); "Aspects theoretiques et methodologiques de la recherche sur le traitement discursif des representations sociales" (Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Research on the Discourse Analysis of Social Representations); "Disponibilite sociale des representations: Approche linguistique" (Social Availability and Representations: Linguistic Approach); "Definir le bilinguisme. Catalogue des criteres retenus pour la definition discursive du bilinguisme" (Defining Bilingualism. Catalogue of Criteria Used for the Discursive Definition of Bilingualism); "Traitement discursif et conversationnel des representations sociales" (Discourse and Conversational Analysis of Social Representations); "Les designations de la personne bilingue: Approche linguistique et discursive" (Designations of a Bilingual Person: Linguistic and Discursive Approach); "Metaphores et representations du cerveau plurilingue: Conceptions naives ou construction du savior? Exemples dans le contexte d'enseignement andorran" (Metaphors and Representations of the Multilingual Brain: Naive Conceptions or Knowledge Construction? Examples in the Context of Andorran Education); "La notion de contrastive dans la mise en mots des representations sociales. Remarques methodologiques sur le bilinguisme en Vallee d'Aoste" (The Notion of Contrastivity in the Verbalization of Social Representations. Methodological Remarks on Bilingualism in the Vallee d'Aoste); "Representations de la communaute linguistique dans une famillie francophone de Suisse romande" (Representations of the Linguistic Community in a Francophone Family in French-Speaking Switzerland); and "'The Right to Speak Irish'": Representation de la langue gaelique en tant qu'enjeu de mobilisation militante en Irlande du Nord" ("The Right to Speak Irish": Representation of the Gaelic Language as a Catalyst for Militant Activism in Northern Ireland). (VWL)