Proceedings from the 16th and 17th Graduate Student Conferences in French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. Volume edited by Lauren van Arsdall and Kate Schlosser. Paroles gelŽes was established in 1983 by its founding editor, Kathryn Bailey. The journal is managed and edited by the French Graduate Students Association; fully funded by the UCLA Graduate Students Association; and published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies.