The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society
for Text & Discourse is in Chicago, Illinois from Monday through
Wednesday, August
16-18, 2010.
The
final short program
is now
available for download!
The conference
registration page is still open
or you can register on site. All presenters and attendees must
register for the
conference, except for undergraduates who are students at one of our
sponsoring institutions. Interested undergraduates should email
jwiley@uic.edu to be added to the complementary registration list.
The regular conference
program begins at 2:30pm
on Monday, August 16th and runs through 4:55pm on Wednesday, August
18th.
We are very proud of the strong
program including 46 spoken paper presentations and 77 posters, 5
plenary and awardee addresses, and 2 special sessions:
- Judith F. Kroll, Reading
and speaking in two languages: What bilinguals tell us about language
processing
- Martha Alibali, Gesture
and Meaning
- Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Do
most language researchers believe in mirror neurons?
- Art Graesser, 2010 Distinguished Scientific
Contribution Award, Society, Text,
and Discourse in the Digital Age
- Michael Kaschak, 2009 Young Investigator Award, Timing, Time and Quantity:
Some Observations on the Role
of the Motor System in Language Comprehension
Reflections on 20 Years
of Text & Discourse: A retrospective panel of some long time
members (including Dick Anderson, Bruce Britton, Herb Clark, Walter
Kinstch, Herre van Oostendorp, and our current and past
chairs, Morton Gernsbacher, Susan Goldman and Art Graesser)
A Symposium on
Comprehension Assessment
including P. David Pearson, Jean
Francois
Rouet, Eduardo Vidal Abarca, Susan Goldman, and Paul van den Broek,
with a discussion by Walter Kintsch
Preconference Workshop
The schedule will start at 8:30am on Monday morning with breakfast and
registration before the
Pre-conference Workshop organized by Anne
Britt and Panayiota Kendeou on
Methodological Paradigms
in Discourse Processes
Workshop
Speakers include:
- Conversation Paradigms, Sid Horton (Northwestern
University)
- Reading Time Paradigms, David N. Rapp (Northwestern
University) & Ed O'Brien (University of New Hampshire)
- Eye-Tracking Paradigms, Johanna Kaakinen (University of
Turku, Finland)
- Think-aloud Paradigms, Panayiota Kendeou (Neapolis
University of Pafos, Cyprus)
- Mixed-methods Paradigms, Joe Magliano (Northern
Illinois
University)
Hotel Information
The conference is located at the
Palmer House
hotel which
is
located at 17 E. Monroe St in downtown Chicago (between State and
Wabash). A special hotel rate of
$169 per night
has
been negotiated for conference participants, and rooms are reserved for
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. To reserve your
hotel rooms at this rate, please use this
LINK or call
1-877-865-5321 to book by referencing the group code STE.
Transit to Hotel
The Palmer House is easily accessible from either O'Hare or Midway
Airport by the "L" train (One-way Fare: $2.25). In the airport, follow
signs for "CTA Trains" or "Trains to City" from the Baggage
Claim. You will need to purchase a farecard by the
entrance. The trains go only one direction from the airport:
toward downtown. The closest El stop to the hotel is Adams and
Wabash on the Orange Line from Midway and the Monroe stop on the Blue
Line from O’Hare. For more information and maps see
http://www.transitchicago.com/riding_cta/airports.aspx
The El is generally the recommended way to get downtown. However,
the Orange line to Midway (MDW) only runs between 4am and 1am on
weekdays,
5am -1am on Saturdays, and 6am - 11:30pm on Sundays. Outside of
those hours, one needs to take a cab from Midway.
The Blue line
to OHare (ORD) does not have restricted hours, but after 10 at night,
you may
prefer to take a cab into town.
For approximate taxi fares, parking costs, and driving directions, see
more travel information at the Palmer House
website.
Presenter Info
Poster size is 36 x 48. For more info, see
here.
Spoken Presentation info is posted
here.
Roommate Matchmaker and
Conference FAQ
We have created a message board where ST&D 2010
attendees can post notices (for instance to find roommates).
Local representatives will also post answers to questions about the
conference, presentation formats, and travelling to Chicago. To join
the message boards follow
this link:
http://stdconference2010.proboards.com/
You will need to click "register" and create a username and password.
You will then get an e-mail and be asked to activate your account. If
you have any questions about how to register for the message board, you
may contact Scott Hinze: at
scott.hinze@gmail.com
Additional Travel Information
Some
things to do in Chicago
Restaurant Finders: yelp.com,
chicagoreader.com
Program Committee
Susan Goldman and Jennifer Wiley are serving as the Co-Chairs
for the meeting, with help from a Program Committee that
capitalizes on the strong tradition of text and discourse research in
the greater Chicago area, including: David Allbritton, Anne Britt,
Bobbi Corrigan, John Dunlosky, Darren Gergle, Thomas Griffin, Peter
Hastings, Scott Hinze, Sid Horton, Chris Kurby, Joe Magliano, Keith
Millis, Mitch Nathan, Helga
Noice, Tony Noice, David
Rapp, Katherine Rawson, John Surber, Sandy Virtue and Mike
Wolfe. Special thanks to Anne Britt and Panayiota Kendeou for
organizing the preconference workshop and to Katie McCarthy and Allison
Jaeger for their
help as grad student "volunteers" on the program and many many details!
Sponsors of ST&D
2010
The Society deeply appreciates the support of the following
institutions:
DePaul University Department of
Psychology
Grand Valley State University
Department of Psychology
NIU Department of Psychology
NIU Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and
Literacy
Northwestern University Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences
Northwestern University Graduate School
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UIC Department of Psychology
UIC Learning Sciences Research Institute
And Taylor & Francis, publishers of Discourse Processes for their
support of the Society and the annual meeting
Future Meetings
2011
Poitiers,
France, July 11-13, 2011
See the
Poitiers 2011
Flyer!
2012 Montreal, Canada, July 10-12, 2012, with IGEL and SSSR