ST&D 2018: 28TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR TEXT & DISCOURSE

28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse Online Program

Online Program: http://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2018/ 
Website: http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/ 
Follow us on Twitter / Facebook: @TextDiscourse

---

Welcome to Brighton!
 

We are honoured to host the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse in the vibrant seaside city of Brighton.  This year’s meeting takes place at the historic Hilton Metropole Hotel on Brighton seafront and has drawn significant interest: we received over 180 proposals for symposia, papers, and poster presentations representing a diverse range of research topics from institutions all around the world. We would like to thank the reviewers for their hard work and attention to detail, and for you – the contributors – for making this such a varied and exciting program. 

This year’s program is packed full of interesting talks.  Murray Singer will be receiving the 2018 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.  Murray will be talking about his research on the processes of text validation: The reader's ongoing assessment of the consistency, coherence, and congruence of text.  Sidney D’Mello will be receiving the 2018 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award, and Catherine (Kate) Bohn Gettler, recipient of the 2017 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award, will be presenting her work on how reader emotions influence text comprehension.  We are also happy to have Evelyn Ferstl deliver the keynote address for this year’s meeting.  Evelyn will be addressing the issue of whether cognitive neuroscience has changed our conceptions of language processing.

This year we are also delighted to have coordinated conferences with the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading and the programme includes an overlap day of papers and symposia which we hope will be of interest to members of both societies, and includes a joint invited symposium at which the contributors will present and discuss different theoretical perspectives on text comprehension across the age range. There are also a range of theme based sessions on a range of topics: Communication and Miscommunication, Understanding and Improving Adult Text Comprehension, Early Years Reading Comprehension, Multiple Text Comprehension, Neuroimaging Studies of Text Comprehension and the Impact of Reader and Text Characteristics on Text Comprehension.  We will be hosting three poster sessions (two of which are joint with SSSR) that allow for more detailed interaction with innovative researchers in our community.  We are fortunate to have two pre-conference workshop sessions: one will cover introduction to linear models in R and the other is an introduction to corpus analysis.

We hope you will also take time to enjoy the city.  Brighton started as a fishing village (some of the oldest houses can be found in the Lanes area), but gained in popularity in the late 1700s and early1800s when the supposed health-giving properties of sea-side air and sea water brought the rich to the seaside, and the then Prince of Wales (later George IV) visited, and liked the town so much, that he decided to build his summer palace (the Royal Pavilion) in Brighton between 1787 and 1823, thus reinforcing its appeal as a popular resort.  The beautiful regency villas and sea-front squares and terraces were also built during this period.  Brighton's popularity with the rich, famous, and royal continued, and saw the building of a number of imposing seafront hotels, including the Grand Hotel of 1864, and the Metropole Hotel of 1890. 

Brighton is known and loved for its cosmopolitan atmosphere, tolerance, and general wackiness.  Be sure to visit not only the Lanes, but also North Laine, which is full of independent small shops and cafes.  A visit to the Royal Pavilion is a must, and the nearby Brighton Museum and Art Gallery is also worth a visit.  If you have time to go further afield, East Sussex’s county town, Lewes, is well worth a trip.  The atmosphere is very different to Brighton and you can visit the castle, Anne of Cleves house, and perhaps Harvey’s Brewery.  Or you might just like to wander around and enjoy the ambience. Lewes is only about 15 minutes by train from Brighton’s main railway station. 

Finally, we would like to thank our Organising Committee, who helped us to make this happen.  Special thanks to Mike Mensink, Kate Bohn-Gettler, Jason Braasch, and Danielle McNamara, and all of the Program Review Committee (see below) for their help. 

We hope you enjoy the conference and your stay in Brighton. 

Jane Oakhill and Kate Cain
Programme Chairs
28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, 2018

---

The Society for Text & Discourse thanks the sponsors of the 28th annual meeting for their support:

---

Disclaimer | Powered by EasyChair Smart Program