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                      InterCom: A newsletter of the
             Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Three items in this issue:

  1. Call for Papers: American Association for Applied Linguistics

  2. European Institute for the Media Media Monitoring of the
     Armenian Parliamentary Elections

  3. How to cancel one or more Comserve hotline subscriptions /
     How to cancel your subscription to InterCom

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                            Call for Papers
              AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS
                                 (AAAL)

         Submitted by:  Sally Jacoby 

                   Annual Meeting, March 23-26, 1996,
                           Chicago, Illinois

                Conference Theme:  DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES
                   Program Chair:  Elinor Ochs, UCLA

    Throughout the life span, people participate in multiple communities
which are defined to a great extent by discourse practices.  Discourse
knowledge and praxis are essential to establishing membership in
families, peer groups, classrooms, neighborhoods, professions,
intellectual paradigms, religions, ethnic and other culturally
significant groups.  Given the linguistic and social heterogeneity of
societies today, people find themselves participating in sometimes
overlapping, sometimes disconnected social worlds.  The 1996 American
Association for Applied Linguistics Conference brings together
psychological, socio- cultural, and linguistic insights into how
discourse is organized, socialized, acquired, and assessed within and
across such worlds.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF
    (University of California, Los Angeles)
BARBARA ROGOFF
    (University of California, Santa Cruz)
WOLFGANG KLEIN
    (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
ANA CELIA ZENTELLA
    (Hunter College)
KARIN ARONSSON
    (Linkping University)
TIM McNAMARA
    (University of Melbourne)

INVITED COLLOQUIA & ORGANIZERS

GENDERED DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES
    MARJORIE H. GOODWIN
    (University of South Carolina)

YOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITIES
    SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH
    (Stanford University)

DISCOURSE AND THE PROFESSIONS
    PER LINELL
    (Linkping University)

EARLY LITERACY ACROSS COMMUNITIES
    CLOTILDE PONTECORVO
    (University of Roma, La Sapienza)
    EMILIA FERREIRO
    (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico)

UNDERSTANDING TEXTS: ARE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS
COMPATIBLE?
    CLAIRE KRAMSCH
    (University of California, Berkeley)

CREATING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
    MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA
    (University of California, Los Angeles)

    ALL PAPERS IN THE LARGER FIELD OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS ARE WELCOME,
but submissions addressing the conference theme are strongly encouraged.
ABSTRACTS are invited for individual papers and colloquia on topics in
applied linguistics, including language acquisition and socialization,
discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, second and
foreign language pedagogy, literacy, language for specific purposes,
assessment, language policy and planning, rhetoric and stylistics,
translation and interpretation.

    INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for
discussion.  Send 3 copies of a typed double-spaced abstract no more
than 250 words long.  In the upper left-hand corner of the first copy,
place the submitter's name, address, phone and fax number, e-mail
address, and institutional affiliation.  Do not put any identification
on the second and third copies.  In addition, please submit a 50-word
typed single-spaced summary, headed by the name and affiliation of each
presenter together with the title of the paper.  This summary will
appear in the conference program exactly as it is submitted.

    COLLOQUIA proposals are invited for blocks of time up to 3 hours.
Colloquia organizers may divide up their block(s) of time as they see
fit, but time should be adequately allocated for opening and closing
remarks, presentations, discussants, and audience response.  A
colloquium proposal should include the following:  1) a 50-word typed
single-spaced description by the organizer of the entire colloquium,
which will appear as submitted in the conference program 2) a 250-word
typed double-spaced abstract for EACH INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION (In the
upper left-hand corner of the first copy, place the submitter's name,
address, phone and fax number, e- mail address, and institutional
affiliation.) 3) a 50-word typed single-spaced summary for EACH
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION, headed by the name and affiliation of each
presenter together with the title of the paper (This summary will appear
in the conference program exactly as it is submitted.) 4) a cover letter
from the organizer bearing the organizer's name, address, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, an explanation of
how the individual presentations relate to one another, to the theme of
the colloquium, and to the theme of the conference (if relevant) 5) a
tentative breakdown of the requested time block into component
activities.

    Abstracts for all presentations in a colloquium must be submitted
together.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

    1) With all submissions, please attach the following information FOR
EACH PRESENTER:

    Presenter's Name, Affiliation, Address, Phone,
    Fax, E-mail.

    2) Please clearly indicate if the submission is an Individual Paper
Proposal or a Colloquium Proposal.

    3) Titles should be no longer than 10 words.

    4) Please indicate which ONE of the following topic areas of applied
linguistics the proposal is most relevant to:  a) language
acquisition/socialization; b) language for specific purposes; c)
discourse analysis; d) assessment; e) psycholinguistics; f) language
policy and planning; g) sociolinguistics; h) rhetoric and stylistics; i)
literacy; j) translation and interpretation; k) second and foreign
language pedagogy

    5) Please indicate if your presentation will require audio visual
equipment:  e.g., VCR (fee charged), tape recorder playback, OHP, slide
projector

    6) Please indicate if any of the presenters will require Deaf
interpreting services.

    7) Please follow the precise specifications for submissions detailed
above.

    Return all materials IN HARDCOPY FORMAT ONLY to:  AAAL 1996 Program
Committee, 7630 West 145th Street, Suite 202, Apple Valley, MN
55124-7533, Fax:  612-891-1800

    DEADLINE FOR COPIES OF ALL PROPOSALS TO REACH THE AAAL BUSINESS
OFFICE:  September 17, 1995, 5:00 PM Central Time No late proposals will
be accepted.

    Please direct all electronic queries concerning submissions to the
1996 AAAL Meeting to Sally Jacoby, Associate Chair,
IHW1051@mvs.oac.ucla.edu

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             Media Monitoring of the Armenian Parliamentary
      Elections and Referendum on the Constitution of 5 July 1995

   Submitted by: "Monique v. Dusseldorp" <100443.1705@compuserve.com>


    The Dusseldorf-based European Institute for the Media has been
conducting a media-monitoring mission to Armenia with financing from the
European Union's TACIS Democracy Programme.  The monitoring team has
examined media coverage of the Parliamentary elections which took place
on July 5, together with the referendum on the new Constitution.

    Particular attention was paid to issues such as access to the media
for all candidates, the ability of media to report freely and fairly,
and impartiality of coverage.  Monitoring by a local team on the
quantitative and qualitative levels began on 12 June and continued to 4
July, via statistical analysis of election-related programming on radio
and television, as well as newspaper articles in the national press, and
via a series of interviews with politicians, journalists and other
prominent people conducted in the final two weeks by Iain Elliot (UK),
Director of the British East-West Centre.

    The following are the preliminary findings; a final report will be
published shortly in Armenian and English.

    1. The quantitative analysis of the media coverage demonstrates that
the registered parties, both opposition and pro-government, were able to
avail themselves of the half-hour free access to state radio and
television, plus up to one hour paid access, as stipulated in the
regulations.  They also had a half-page unpaid in the state press to
promote their agenda.  A series of round-table discussions on state
television gave viewers the opportunity to evaluate the issues as
presented by party representatives.

    2. An examination of all the major newspapers appearing in Armenian
or Russian in the Republic shows no indication of direct censorship.  A
wide range of opinion regarding the election and the Constitution was
available to readers, including articles highly critical of the
government couched in very strong language.

    3. The media in general suffer from the country's economic and
social difficulties.  Frequent power cuts interrupted viewing of some
election programmes, although no deliberate pattern could be identified.
Lack of advertising revenue and very low income levels mean that the
number of newspaper copies published seldom surpasses 15,000 and for
most opposition newspapers is closer to 5,000.  Some opposition party
titles no longer appear because of financial difficulties.

    4. The small circulation of the press in Armenia places great
responsibility on state funded television and radio to give fair
representation to the whole range of political opinion in the republic.
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the programming recorded and
monitored in the pre-election period demonstrates an overwhelming
pre-government position in areas from news reporting to the choice of
entertainment films.

    The series "Political Patience" compred by the deputy president of
State Television, Vahram Martirosyan, in its bias and ad hominem
attacks, is a particularly clear example of journalism which falls far
below the best standards.

    5. This pro-government position of the electronic media, while by no
means exceptional in the countries of the former Soviet Union, has
serious consequences in terms of lack of balanced information on the
major issues.  This is of particular importance where a complex subject,
such as whether to vote for or against a new Constitution, is to be
decided on by the electorate, and in this respect Armenian state radio
and television failed to provide the service which the public has a
right to expect.

    6. Although the situation regarding law and order is reportedly
improving, there have been several cases of the firebombing and
ransacking of opposition newspapers and of serious physical attacks on
journalists and editors, which were repeatedly raised in the course of
interviews.  Last December, following the presidential decree suspending
the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutiun) the party's
newspapers were closed and some 100 journalists lost their jobs.

    In January the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii was asked to
vacate premises in the state owned House of the Press, despite having a
lease until January 1996.  The newspaper was widely supported by other
non-government newspapers and has continued to appear while still under
threat of eviction.  Government ownership of the main printing houses
can be regarded as a method of placing journalists under pressure.
These factors have clearly influenced the working climate for
journalists in the pre-election period.

    7. The monitoring team noted with interest the development of
non-governmental local cable television as witnessed in Ashtarak.  This
station aims to provide subscribers (who are several times greater in
number than the circulation of most newspapers) with a full range of
news and entertainment programmes.  All local candidates had the
opportunity to explain their views to voters on this cable station,
which has plans to expand operations to Echmiadzin.


    The present elections mark an important stage in Armenia's progress
towards democratic institutions.  The media reflect this delicate
transitional state.

    A final report on the media coverage of the elections in Armenia
will be published in Armenian and English.  Copies will be available on
request.

    The conclusions expressed in this press release are those of the
European Institute for the Media and should not be taken to reflect the
policies or opinions of the European Commission.

    The mission was financed by the TACIS Democracy Programme which was
approved by the European Commission as part of the TACIS programme.The
TACIS programme exists to provide technical assistance to the countries
of the ex-Soviet Union in their quest to adapt to a market economy under
democratic conditions.

    The European Institute for the Media is an independent
policy-orientated body operating in the field of media research.  Since
December 1993, the Institute has carried out media-monitoring missions
in Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Belarus, the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia and Estonia (these reports are available on
request).

    For further information please contact Mr. Karen Martirossyan's
office on 3742-235691 (tel) or Mr. Yasha Lange, Project Manager of the
East-West Cooperation Programme, at the Institute in Dusseldorf on +49
211 9010472 (tel) or +49 211 9010456 (fax) or 100443.1705@compuserve.com
(e-mail).

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