call for papers : panel on telephone calls panel : a panel is being organized for the 6th international pragmatics conference to be held on 19 - 24 july 1998 in reims , france . the panel is entitled " telephone calls : unity and diversity of conversational structure across languages and cultures " . aim : the aim of this panel is to bring together researchers working on telephone calls in different societies using conversational data from different languages to present their findings , to compare and contrast them with those of researchers working on other languages and in different cultures , and to discuss any similarities and differences . papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially welcome . anyone interested in offering a paper to this panel is invited to write to either of the organizers , to whom queries about further details of the conference can also be addressed . panel organizers : 1 . theodossia - soula pavlidou , department of linguistics , aristotle university of thessaloniki , greece . ( pavlidou @ lit . auth . gr ) 2 . k . k . luke , department of linguistics , university of hong kong , pokfulam , hong kong . ( kkluke @ hkusua . hku . hk )