ST&D 2023: 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway, June 28-30, 2023

Conference website	https://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2023/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2023
Conference program	https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2023/
Submission Portal Opens	October 15, 2022
Submission deadline	February 1, 2023

33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse: Call for Proposals

We invite students and scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, learning sciences, education, and others) to attend and participate in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, to be held June 28-30, 2023 at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. We welcome the submission of individual papers and posters that present original research on text and discourse processing, representation, and analysis.

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.

A full list of topics is avilable at the end of this proposal.

**The submission page will open on October 15, 2022. The submission deadline will be January 15th February 1st, 2023**

 

Submission Website

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2023 

Remote Attendance

The conference is planned to be held in-person with in-person presentations and poster sessions. There will also be options for remote attendance and remote poster sessions.

More details will be provided regarding this hybrid format at a later date.

 

Invited Plenary Speaker

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, UK

Presentation Formats and Submission Options

ST&D 2023 submission options include the following:

1. Spoken Presentations: To be presented in-person
2. Poster Presentations: To be presented in-person 
3. Remote Presentations: To be presented in a virtual session (e.g., via FlipGrid)
4. Symposia or Themed Sessions: These sessions will include a set of in-person presentations on a predetermined theme. Symposia should be reviewed by the program chairs prior to submission. See below for details.
5. Roundtable Discussions: These sessions will include a set of speakers who will lead an in-person discussion on some issue or issues important to the Society. Roundtables should be reviewed by the program chairs prior to submission. See below for details

 

Call for Symposia or Roundtable Discussions

If you have suggestions for Symposia, Roundtable Discussions, or Themed Sessions, please send them (title, short description, list of potential contributors) to the Program Chairs (Øistein Anmarkrud and Carita Kiili: carita.kiili@tuni.fi) by January 2, 2023. Accepted authors will need to submit individual submissions following the same guidelines as regular proposals.  

The Program Review Committee, under the supervision of the Program Chairs will review the proposals and make decisions regarding acceptance, format, and arrangement into sessions. Authors will be notified of decisions by mid-January. Inquiries about the submission process should be sent to carita.kiili@tuni.fi or to std2023@ easychair.org. 

Submission Format 

Proposals should include: 

1. Title 

1. Author information (Name, Affiliation, Country and Email addresses for all authors) 

1. First author student status (this will be used for award eligibility) 

1. Submission preference (Spoken Only, Poster Only, Spoken or Poster) 

1. At least three relevant keywords 

1. Appropriate topic areas for reviewing (see end of document). 

1. A 75-word abstract 

1. A 1200-word summary of the presentation (including bibliography).  

The summary should have a title but no author information. It should contain basic sections including a short theoretical introduction/framework, methodological overview (including quantitative or qualitative approach), key findings, and a brief discussion. The summary will be submitted as a pdf file and should be saved using a generic same (e.g. summary.pdf) Proposals that exceed the length specified will not be reviewed. 

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 qualifications 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

• Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Travel Award: The purpose of the Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Award is to promote diversity within the Society for Text and Discourse by supporting research on Text and Discourse related to diversity as well as research by individuals from underrepresented groups. See here for details. 

Student Travel Awards

• Student Travel Awards: Awards will be made available for student travel,. More information regarding student travel award applications will be available after submissions have been completed. 

Conference Registration Rates

Adjusted registration rates for the online conference are still being finalized. The conference registration system will open in on or before May 1, 2023. Members will receive a significant discount for conference registration. To become a member of ST&D, please click here.

Registration is planned to open in early April. 

The following fees are planned for in-person attendance(USD)

• ST&D member - Early: $300.00
• ST&D member - Standard: $350.00
• Student Member - Early: $125.00
• Student Member - Standard: $175.00

• Nonmember - Early: $600.00
• Nonmember - Standard: $650.00
• Student nonmember - Early: $250.00
• Student nonmember - Standard: $300.00

Note that refreshments and lunches will be included on the days of the conference

The following fees are planned for remote attendance (USD)

• Remote ST&D member: $150.00
• Remote Student Member: $60.00
• Remote Nonmember: $300.00
• Remote Student nonmember: $125.00

ST&D 2023 Conference Organizing Committee

• Helge Strømsø (Co-Chair)
• Ivar Bråten (Co-Chair) 
• Øistein Anmarkrud (Program Committee Co-Chair)  
• Carita Kiili (Program Committee Co-Chair)
• Christian Brandmo
• Ladislao Salmerón
• Leila Ferguson
• Natalia Latini
• Ymkje Haverkamp
• Scott Hinze (conference webmaster)

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
• Development
• Dialect Speakers
• Dialogue
• Digital Literacy
• Dyslexia and Struggling Readers
• Early Readers
• Electronic/Online/Hypertext
• Embodiment
• Emotion
• Epistemic cognition
• Expository Text Processing
• Family Literacy
• Gesture & Paralinguistic Communication
• Graphics & Visual Communication
• Health Literacy
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Individual Differences
• Inferences
• Learning & Instruction
• Metaphor & Figurative Language
• Minority Language Speakers and/or Readers
• Misinformation & Inconsistencies
• Motivation for Reading and Writing
• Multiple Document Literacy
• Narrative Processes
• Natural Language Processing
• Qualitative Methodology
• Quantitative Methodology (Advances & HLM/SEM)
• Rhetorical Structure & Processing
• Sentence Processing
• Sourcing
• Strategic Reading
• Text Comprehension & Representation
• Think-aloud Methods
• Web & Knowledge Technologies
• Writing

Suggestions for additional topic areas should be sent to std2023 @ easychair.org

Additional Information

For more information on the Society for Text & Discourse and the 2023 Annual Meeting, please see http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2023/  

Questions about ST&D 2023, this call for papers, submissions, or the submission process should be emailed to std2023 @ easychair.org