ST&D 2021: 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Online Chicago, IL, United States, August 2-4, 2021

Conference website	http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2021/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2021
Conference program	https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2021/
Submission deadline	April 1, 2021

31th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse: Call for Proposals

The 31st Annual Meeting of the Sciety for Text & Discourse will be held online: August 2 – August 4, 2021.  

The Society for Text & Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of text and discourse including processing and analysis. The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and to contribute to the education and professional development of those in the field or entering the field.

**The submission page is now open. The final extended submission deadline is April 1, 2021**

Reviews and decisions will be communicated to authors before the end of May 2021.

We invite students and scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, learning sciences, education, computer science, communication sciences, health literacy) to attend and participate in the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse. 

Submission Options

Due to the nature of online conference presentations, ST&D 2021 will utilize the following submission options (instead of spoken and poster presentations):

1. Standard Presentations with Asynchronous Feedback

• Standard presentations will be delivered asynchronously via 10-minute Flipgrid recording.
• Audience feedback will be delivered via responses in Flipgrid.
• Standard presentations will be organized into relevant Flipgrid topic categories in the 2021 ST&D Flipgrid page.
• This presentation category is viewed as the standard level, and thus less competitive in terms of submission evaluations.

 

2. Enhanced Presentations with Synchronous Discussions

• Enhanced Presentations will be delivered asynchronously via 10-minute Flipgrid recordings.
• Accepted Enhanced Presentations will be organized into themed 1-hour online discussion sessions, to be scheduled the dates of August 2-4, 2021.
• This presentation category is viewed as more competitive in terms of submission evaluations.

 

3. Symposia Presentations with Synchronous Discussions

• Preorganized symposia sessions are also invited for ST&D 2021. Symposia sessions will be delivered asynchronously via 10-minute Flipgrid recordings.
• Symposia will also receive themed 1-hour online discussion sessions, to be scheduled the dates of August 2-4, 2021.

 

4. Virtual Roundtable Discussions

• We also invite proposals for Roundtable Discussions, to be scheduled as 1-hour online discussion sessions during the conference.
• Roundtable Discussions will be 1 hour in length and dedicated to discussion and interaction around the proposed topic area.
• Example topics may include the following: Collecting data online, Open science research practices, Careers in Text and Discourse, & Social justice and equity.

Symposia Proposals

Proposals for Symposia sessions should be sent to Mike Mensink (mensinkm@uwstout.edu) by April 1, 2021. Proposals should include a title, short description of entire symposia, and a 75-word abstract for each presentation with corresponding authors information (email and affiliation).

Roundtable Discussion Proposals

The Society is exploring an alternative session this year, Roundtable Discussions.  Round table discussions will be opportunity to synchronously discuss a broad range of topics of interest and importance to society members during the conference. These topics could be related to new areas of research that could be of interest to the community, methodological challenges that we now face (e.g., conducting discourse processing research using online platforms), professional development (e.g., navigating the job market), or larger issues that impact the society (e.g., pursuing social justice, effective communication with policy makers), or other meaningful topics.

Roundtable proposals (title, short description of the topic, and names of moderators) should be sent to Mike Mensink (mensinkm@uwstout.edu) by April 1, 2021.

Submission Format and Instructions for Standard and Enhanced Presentations

Proposals should be submitted as .PDF files to the 2021 ST&D Conference Submission Portal (opening January 1).

I. The following information must be entered into the Submission Portal:

1. Author information (Name, Affiliation, Country, Email Address for all authors; Indicate corresponding author and presenter).
   • For example: Johnathon A. Smith, smith123@R1university.edu
   • DO NOT USE: Jon Smith, jsmith@yahoo.com
     • To streamline program creation, please ensure the same preferred name for publications and professional email address is used for authors and coauthors across submissions. Submitting authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of co-author information. 
2. Title
   • All proper words should be capitalized in project titles, for example: An Analysis of Text Processing and Product
   • DO NOT USE: An analysis of text processing and products
3. A 100-word abstract
4. At least three relevant keywords.
5. Appropriate topic areas for reviewing (see List of Topics ).
6. Award Eligibility (First author student status)
7. Submission preference (Enhanced Presentation, Standard Presentation, No Preference).
   • Please note, that due to scheduling limitations, the organizers are only able to accept a limited number of Enhanced Presentations.

 

II. A 1500-word summary of the presentation (References section is included in word-count limit) must be included with the information above as an attached PDF. Tables and appendices are allowed as part of the summary, and do not count toward the word limit.

Research summaries should include the following information: 

1. A title but no author information.
2. Summaries should include the following basic sections:
   • Theoretical introduction and/or framework
   • Methodological overview (including quantitative or qualitative approaches)
   • Key findings
   • Brief discussion or conclusion section
   • Relevant references 
3. The summary should be submitted as a PDF file and saved using a generic file name (e.g. summary.pdf) Proposals that exceed the length specified will not be reviewed.

 

Prepreints in Easychair: Authors will have the option of making their submissions available as preprints through Easychair, however this will not be required. Information about preprints can be viewed at https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2020/preprint.html 

Submission-based Awards

Each year, the Society for Text & Discourse recognizes excellence in research for projects primarily conducted by recent doctorates, doctoral candidates, and graduate students, or projects conducted by or significantly supported by undergraduate students. To be eligible for consideration for one of these awards, submitters must indicate the award eligibility during submission. Projects may only be considered for a single award category. Eligible proposals will first be evaluated for quality by the Program Review Committee, and the highest reviewed proposals will then be sent to the ST&D Awards Committee for final consideration. Award finalists may be asked to submit additional information regarding their submission. As a final step, dissertation advisors and/or research supervisors will be contacted by the Awards Committee to ensure that finalists have met all qualitications for the award. Recipients of each award receive a certificate and a $150 award check.

• Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award: The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1997. The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation. The doctoral candidate or recent doctorate must be first author on the paper.

• Graduate Student Research Award: The Graduate Student Research Award recognizes quality in predissertation work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. Accordingly, the graduate student must be first author on the paper. 

• Undergraduate Student Research Award: The Undergraduate Student Research award recognizes quality in work that is predominately that of an undergraduate student, or research to which the undergraduate student contributed a significant amount of effort and support.

Mentorship Program Application

The Society for Text and Discourse is proud to announce the third year of our Mentorship Program for advanced graduate students (within 1-2 years of graduation), postdoctoral researchers (in their first 3 years post-graduation) and junior faculty (in their first 3 years as a faculty member). This program will support career development and provide networking opportunities. Mentees will be paired with a mid-career or senior scholar and have the opportunity to discuss scholarship, handling new roles as a faculty member, finding an academic position and/or navigating tenure, funding, teaching, and more.

Individuals who wish to apply for Mentee status in the Mentorship Program should prepare the following documents and complete the application linked below (link forthcoming):

1. A brief statement of your professional goals and how they would be supported by mentorship (1 page or less)
2. At least one but no more than three samples of writing (e.g., publications, pre-prints, proposals).
3. Complete the ST&D Mentorship Application and upload the requested files.

 

Program Review Committee and Author Notification Date

The Program Review Committee, under the supervision of the Conference Organizing Committee, will review the proposals and provide feedback on decisions regarding acceptance, arrangement into sessions. Authors will be notified of decisions by May 2021. Current members of ST&D are also invited to volunteer for the Program Review Committee. Inquiries about joining the Program Review Committee, the submission process, or the conference,  should be sent to std2021 at easychair.org.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held on online. Additional details and relevant links to online sessions will be distributed to the ST&D membership and non-member submitting authors via regular emails from Easychair.

Conference Registration Rates

ST&D is committed to making the 2021 Online Conference accessble to all members. Registration rates will be forthcoming, however current ST&D members will recieve a significant discount. The conference registration system will open in late May. Click here to become a member of ST&D

Contact

Questions about ST&D 2021, this call for papers, submissions, or the submission process should be emailed to std2021 @ easychair.org

ST&D 2021 Conference Organizing Committee

• Keith Millis (Chair)
• Sri Dandotkar
• Alex List
• Joe Magliano
• Matt McCrudden
• Mike Mensink
• Caitlin Mills
• Emily Smith

Topic Areas

• Adult Literacy
• Adult Readers
• Assessment
• Brain Imaging & Neurophysiological Measures
• Cohesion & Referential Devices
• Computational Linguistics
• Computer Mediated/Online Communication
• Conversational/Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Analysis
• Deaf Studies
• Development
• Early Readers
• Electronic/Online/Hypertext
• Embodiment
• Emotion
• Expository Text Processing
• Gesture & Paralinguistic Communication
• Graphics & Visual Communication
• Health Literacy
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Individual Differences
• Inferences
• Learning & Instruction
• Misinformation & Inconsistencies
• Metaphor & Figurative Language
• Multilingual Speakers
• Multiple Text Comprehension
• Narrative Processes
• Natural Language Processing
• Qualitative Methodology
• Quantitative Methodology (Advances & HLM/SEM)
• Rhetorical Structure & Processing
• Sentence Processing
• Sourcing
• Struggling Readers
• Strategic Reading
• Text Comprehension & Representation
• Think-aloud Methods
• Web & Knowledge Technologies
• Writing