Society for Text & Discourse: Annual Meeting


Home About the Society Membership Member's Only Conferences Annual Meeting Meeting Archive Discourse Processes Awards Fellows of the Society	Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society Chicago, IL August 16-18, 2010 The Society for Text & Discourse will hold its Twentieth Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from Monday through Wednesday, August 16-18, 2010. We are proud to announce a distinguished and exciting list of invited speakers who will address the Society this summer: Judith Kroll, Reading and speaking in two languages: What bilinguals tell us about language processing Martha Alibali, Gesture and Meaning Morton Gernsbacher, Why don't most language researchers believe in mirror neurons? Arthur Graesser, 2010 Awardee, Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Michael Kaschak, 2009 Awardee, Young Investigator Award Also, several invited symposia are being organized: Communication and Deception Comprehension Assessment Collaborative Dialogue Improving Comprehension Monitoring and Learning from Text Reflections on 20 Years of Text & Discourse: A Retrospective by a Panel of our Fellows We hope this whets your appetite for the meeting, and inspires you to get your own submissions ready! The conference will be located at the Palmer House hotel which is located at 17 E. Monroe St in downtown Chicago (between State and Wabash). The nearest El stops are: the Monroe-Red Line stop, the Adams/Wabash Orange Line stop, and the Monroe-Blue Line stop. The Blue line runs to O'Hare Airport and the Orange line runs to Midway Airport. 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. The tentative schedule is to offer a workshop on Monday morning, with the conference opening at noon. We expect the program to end by 5pm on Wednesday. The CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS is now available here! Submissions are due March 1, 2010. 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 here in the greater Chicago area, including: David Allbritton, Anne Britt, Bobbi Corrigan, John Dunlosky, Darren Gergle, Thomas Griffin, Peter Hastings, Sid Horton, Chris Kurby, Joe Magliano, Keith Millis, Helga Noice, Tony Noice, David Rapp, Gary Raney, Katherine Rawson, John Surber, Sandy Virtue, Mike Wolfe, and Jeff Zacks. Special thanks to Rolf Zwann, Katinka Dijkstra, Diane Pecher, Anique de Bruin, Huib Tabbers, Paul van den Broek, and Ted Sanders for hosting the 2009 conference in Rotterdam. The 2009 program will be posted in the archive soon. Until then, the 2009 website is at http://research.psyweb.nl/std2009/	ST&D 2010 will be held in Chicago, where the meeting started, for the special occasion of our 20th Anniversary.

The Society for Text & Discourse will hold its Twentieth Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from Monday through Wednesday, August 16-18, 2010.

We are proud to announce a distinguished and exciting list of invited speakers who will address the Society this summer:

Judith Kroll, Reading and speaking in two languages: What bilinguals tell us about language processing
Martha Alibali, Gesture and Meaning
Morton Gernsbacher, Why don't most language researchers believe in mirror neurons?
Arthur Graesser, 2010 Awardee, Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Michael Kaschak, 2009 Awardee, Young Investigator Award

Also, several invited symposia are being organized:

Communication and Deception
Comprehension Assessment
Collaborative Dialogue
Improving Comprehension Monitoring and Learning from Text
Reflections on 20 Years of Text & Discourse: A Retrospective by a Panel of our Fellows

We hope this whets your appetite for the meeting, and inspires you to get your own submissions ready!

The conference will be located at the Palmer House hotel which is located at 17 E. Monroe St in downtown Chicago (between State and Wabash). The nearest El stops are: the Monroe-Red Line stop, the Adams/Wabash Orange Line stop, and the Monroe-Blue Line stop. The Blue line runs to O'Hare Airport and the Orange line runs to Midway Airport.

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. The tentative schedule is to offer a workshop on Monday morning, with the conference opening at noon. We expect the program to end by 5pm on Wednesday.

The CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS is now available here! Submissions are due March 1, 2010.

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 here in the greater Chicago area, including: David Allbritton, Anne Britt, Bobbi Corrigan, John Dunlosky, Darren Gergle, Thomas Griffin, Peter Hastings, Sid Horton, Chris Kurby, Joe Magliano, Keith Millis, Helga Noice, Tony Noice, David Rapp, Gary Raney, Katherine Rawson, John Surber, Sandy Virtue, Mike Wolfe, and Jeff Zacks.

Special thanks to Rolf Zwann, Katinka Dijkstra, Diane Pecher, Anique de Bruin, Huib Tabbers, Paul van den Broek, and Ted Sanders for hosting the 2009 conference in Rotterdam. The 2009 program will be posted in the archive soon. Until then, the 2009 website is at
http://research.psyweb.nl/std2009/

Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society

Chicago, IL

August 16-18, 2010