This volume contains seven papers (by V Traverso, L Mondada, P Touati, A B Hansen and M-B Mosegaard Hansen, A. Coveney, C. Bozier, and E. Westin) which were presented at an international symposium on "Linguistic and interactional structures in spoken French", held at the University of Copenhagen in June 2001. The idea behind the symposium was to discuss the possibility of integrating various theoretical and methodological approaches in order to arrive at a more satisfying description of the spoken language. The papers reproduced here contribute to that discussion from several angles and at several levels of description.