8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:14:48 -0600
From: "Rachel R. W. Robertson" <rrrobert at facstaff.wisc.edu>

Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
Madison, WI
July 29 - 31, 1998

For more information about the conference, visit our web site at
http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/ST&D/ST&D.htm, or contact Rachel Robertson at
textdis at macc.wisc.edu or 608-262-6989.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.  INVITED PRESENTATION
          EVE SWEETSER, Levels and channels in discourse structure
8:00 - 10:00 p.m.  Reception


THURSDAY, JULY 30

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.  INVITED PRESENTATION
          DOUGLAS BIBER, Literacy and linguistic specialization: Synchronic
and diachronic evidence concerning the linguistic correlates of literacy

10:00 - 10:20  Break

Thursday, Paper Session 1

Talk #01, Thursday, July 30, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m.
     Authors: Tony Noice and Helga Noice
     Title: Memory benefits of active experiencing for expository and
narrative material
Talk #02, Thursday, July 30, 10:45 - 11:05 a.m.
     Authors: Danielle McNamara
     Title: Self-explanation: Effects of practice, prior domain knowledge,
and reading skill
Talk #03, Thursday, July 30, 11:10 - 11:30 a.m.
     Authors: Guy Denhière and Cédrick Bellissens
     Title: Retrieval from long-term working memory during reading
Talk #04, Thursday, July 30, 11:35 - 11:55 a.m.
     Authors: Arthur Glenberg and David A. Robertson
     Title: Indexical understanding of instructions

Thursday, Paper Session 2

Talk #05, Thursday, July 30, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m.
     Authors: Michelle Gregory and Laura Michaelis
     Title: Topicalization and left dislocation: A functional opposition
revisited
Talk #06, Thursday, July 30, 10:45 - 11:05 a.m.
     Authors: Pamela Downing
     Title: The use of reference forms to negotiate stance in English
conversation
Talk #07, Thursday, July 30, 11:10 - 11:30 a.m.
     Authors: Tânia Mara Gastão Saliés
     Title: Linguistic attributes and conceptual organization: A
cross-linguistic analysis of discourse in the light of Cognitive Grammar
Talk #08, Thursday, July 30, 11:35 - 11:55 a.m.
     Authors: Hirokuni Masuda
     Title: Narrative representation theory: Universals in Creole discourse

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

Symposium, Thursday, July 30, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
     Symposium Organizer: Art Graesser
     Title: AutoTutor: A computer tutor that simulates human tutorial dialogue

     The goals and design of AutoTutor, Art Graesser & Stan Franklin

     A Demonstration of AutoTutor, Lee McCauley, Barry Gholson, & Bill Marks

     A curriculum script on the topic of computer literacy, Myles Bogner,
Doug Hacker, Holly Yetman, & Bianca Klettke

     Language modules and speech act classification, Jim Hoeffner, Brent
Olde, & Zhoahua Zhang

     Using Latent Semantic Analysis to represent knowledge about computer
literacy, Peter Wiemer-Hasting

     Tests of Latent Semantic Analysis in the domain of computer literacy,
Katja Wiemer-Hastings & Ashraf Anwar

     Tutor dialogue moves in naturalistic tutoring, Natalie Person,
Victoria Pomeroy, & Matt Weeks

     AutoTutor's generation of dialogue moves, Derek Harter

     Intonation and facial expressions of talking head, Roger Kreuz,
Kristen Link, & Xiangen Hu

Thursday, Paper Session 3

Talk #09, Thursday, July 30, 1:30 - 1:50 p.m.
     Authors: Francisco Ocampo
     Title: The interaction between discourse, cognition, syntax,
pragmatics, and prosody: The case of word order variation in spoken Spanish
in constructions with a verb, a noun phrase argument, and an adverb
Talk #10, Thursday, July 30, 1:55 - 2:15 p.m.
     Authors: Stéphanie Montoya, Thierry Baccino and Guy Denhière
     Title: The effect of referent accessibility on pronoun processing:
Evidence from eye movement recordings
Talk #11, Thursday, July 30, 2:20 - 2:40 p.m.
     Authors: Pierre Thérouanne and Guy Denhière
     Title: Time course of single-word context effects on meaning access
Talk #12, Thursday, July 30, 2:45 - 3:05 p.m.
     Authors: Martine Cornuejols and Jean-Pierre Rossi
     Title: What is associated in the mind of a subject when he reads words
or sees pictures?

3:10 - 3:30  Break

Thursday, Paper Session 4

Talk #13, Thursday, July 30, 3:30 - 3:50 p.m.
     Authors: Paul van den Broek, Yuhtsuen Tzeng and Michael E. Young
     Title: The role of attention allocation during reading in the
construction of mental representation of a text
Talk #14, Thursday, July 30, 3:55 - 4:15 p.m.
     Authors: Franz Schmalhofer and Ludger van Elst
     Title: The comprehension of scandals: Cognitive implications from
descriptions of cheating behavior
Talk #15, Thursday, July 30, 4:20 - 4:40 p.m.
     Authors: Isabelle Tapiero and Nathalie Blanc
     Title: The multidimensional aspects of a situation model constructed
from text: Effects of spatial and non spatial information
Talk #16, Thursday, July 30, 4:45 - 5:05 p.m.
     Authors: Sami Gulgoz, Tarcan Kumkale and M. Emrah Aktunc
     Title: The effects of text coherence, need for cognition, and prior
knowledge on situation models

Thursday, Paper Session 5

Talk #17, Thursday, July 30, 3:30 - 3:50 p.m.
     Authors: Heather Bortfeld
     Title: A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native
and non-native speakers
Talk #18, Thursday, July 30, 3:55 - 4:15 p.m.
     Authors: Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein
     Title: Familiar and less familiar ironies: The graded salience hypothesis
Talk #19, Thursday, July 30, 4:20 - 4:40 p.m.
     Authors: Herbert Colston
     Title: An evaluation of conceptual metaphor via extra-linguistic
paradigms: Evidence from category accessibility and reading inferences
Talk #20, Thursday, July 30, 4:45 - 5:05 p.m.
     Authors: Mark Andrews and Frank Keil
     Title: Conceptual organization and discourse processing

5:15 - 5:45 p.m.  Business Meeting

8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Poster Session
Shape - the elusive property of discourse and the design of digital documents
Andrew Dillon

An intertextual typology for text analysis
Juanita Marinkovich & Ricardo Benitez

Updating a situation model: Evidence for on-line and backward processes
Nathalie Blanc & Isabelle Tapiero

The effects of prior knowledge on the content of a situation model
constructed from a descriptive text
Nathalie Blanc & Isabelle Tapiero

Evolution of subjects' initial knowledge structure on a specific domain:
Effects of relations between concepts and of expertise
Isabelle Tapiero & Gaelle Molinari

Memory for metaphors and similes in meaningful discourse
Richard Harris & Noah Jacob Mosier

Violating orientational metaphors affects text comprehension
William Langston & John

The eventuality of propositions
Max Louwerse

The influence of causal connections on the construction of a coherent
memory text representation: Connection strength versus connectivity strength
Marie-Pilar Quintana, Isabelle & Paul van den Broek

Implicit causality effects in the interpretation of pronouns
Jane Oakhill, Alan Garnham, David Reynolds, & Carolyn Wilshire

The influence of verb bias information on clausal integration: Implicit
causality and implicit consequentiality
Andrew Stewart, Martin J. Pickering & Anthony J. Sanford

Detecting subgoal relations in narrative comprehension
Eric Richards & Murray Singer

Are elaborative task conditions necessary for making on-line inferences
about fictional characters' emotional states?
Tammy Bourg, Lori Bernard, Candise Bockrath , & Peter Tran

The importance of reactions for inferring characters' emotions in narrative
texts
Scott Vincent Masten & Tammy Bourg

Does instrument inference occur on-line during reading?
Sung-il Kim , Jung-Mo Lee , Jae-Ho Lee , & Kun-Hyo Lee

The contribution of associative processes to the generation of predictive
inferences
Nicolas Campion & Jean Pierre Rossi

What inference generation research can learn from cinema studies
Per Persson

Cultural influences on online text elaborations
Darcia Narvaez, Christyan Mitchell & Brian Linzie

Cognitive-cooperative strategies in the writing classroom
Pilar Morán

Reading-writing connections: discourse-oriented research
Giovanni Parodi

Plan implementation in narrative writing
Brian Linzie & Amy R. Briggs

Task and context: Factors that contribute to expressing one's own ideas in
multiple-source writing
Rosalind Horowitz

The effects and sources of effects of questioning timing on comprehension
of stories
Yuhtsuen Tzeng & Paul van den Broek

The effects of causal text revision on more- and less-skilled readers'
comprehension of easy/difficult text
Tracy Linderholm, Michelle Gaddy, Maureen Mischinski, & Paul van den Broek

Individual differences in remediating poor text comprehension
Mina Johnson-Glenberg

The role of working memory capacity in integrating outline material with text
Amber Wells & Peter W. Foltz

Locating information in complex text: Domain expertise or document literacy?
Jean-François Rouet & Laurent Guillon

Effects of literacy and type of TV news on recall
Fatos Goksen, Sami Gulgoz & Cigdem Kagitcibasi

Suppression mechanisms in children: Memory for previously relevant
information in good and poor comprehenders
Alix Seigneuric & Marie-France Ehrlich

Modelisation of sentence comprehension in reading by children
Céline Asmussen


FRIDAY, JULY 31

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.  INVITED PRESENTATION
          JANE OAKHILL, Individual differences in children's comprehension
skill

10:00 - 10:20 Break

Friday, Paper Session 6

Talk #21, Friday, July 31, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m.
     Authors: Wilbert Spooren and Ted Sanders
     Title: What does children's discourse tell us about the nature of
coherence relations?
Talk #22, Friday, July 31, 10:45 - 11:05 a.m.
     Authors: Peter Meyerson, Susan R. Goldman, Nathalie Cote, Cynthia
Mayfield-Stewart, and David M. Bloome
     Title: "Where's Glowbird?": Children's use of multiple dimensions in
story narratives
Talk #23, Friday, July 31, 11:10 - 11:30 a.m.
     Authors: Jean-François Rouet and Caroline Golder
     Title: Why did the protest turn violent? 12 to 14 year-olds'
understanding of controversy accounts
Talk #24, Friday, July 31, 11:35 - 11:55 a.m.
     Authors: Guy Denhière and Patrick Bougé
     Title: Using a corpus of textbooks to predict and to simulate
organization of knowledge concerning biological concepts

Friday, Paper Session 7

Talk #25, Friday, July 31, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m.
     Authors: Mike Rinck and Andrea Haehnel
     Title: The comprehension and retention of temporal information in
situation models
Talk #26, Friday, July 31, 10:45 - 11:05 a.m.
     Authors: Joe Magliano and Michelle Schleich
     Title: Grammatical markers as processing instructions for situation
model construction: A case for verb aspect
Talk #27, Friday, July 31, 11:10 - 11:30 a.m.
     Authors: Keith Millis, Anne King and Shelly Walquist
     Title: Updating situation models across readings of descriptive texts
Talk #28, Friday, July 31, 11:35 - 11:55 a.m.
     Authors: Rolf Zwaan, K. Anders Ericsson, Carolyn E. Lally, and Len Hill
     Title: Translation of text: A new approach to monitoring the
construction of situation models during comprehension

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30  INVITED PRESENTATION
          ELIZABETH BATES, Processing language in real time:
Cross-linguistic evidence

Friday, Paper Session 8

Talk #29, Friday, July 31, 2:35 - 2:55 p.m.
     Authors: Susan Duncan
     Title: Gestures in relation to speech: Clues to discourse processes in
Chinese and English
Talk #30, Friday, July 31, 3:00 - 3:20 p.m.
     Authors: Timothy Koschmann and Curtis D. LeBaron
     Title: The complementarity of speech and gesticulation in learner
articulation
Talk #31, Friday, July 31, 3:25 - 3:45 p.m.
     Authors: Leo Noordman, Ingrid Dassen, Marc Swerts, and Jacques Terken
     Title: Prosodic expressions of text structure

Friday, Paper Session 9

Talk #32, Friday, July 31, 2:35 - 2:55 p.m.
     Authors: Ellen Spertus
     Title: Automatic recognition of hostile electronic messages
Talk #33, Friday, July 31, 3:00 - 3:20 p.m.
     Authors: Peter Foltz
     Title: Human and computer evaluation of student essays
Talk #34, Friday, July 31, 3:25 - 3:45 p.m.
     Authors: Ken Samuel
     Title: Discourse learning: Dialogue act tagging with
transformation-based learning

3:50 - 4:10  Break

Friday, Paper Session 10

Talk #35, Friday, July 31, 4:10 - 4:25 p.m.
     Authors: James Voss, Jennifer Wiley and Rebecca Sandak
     Title: On the use of narrative as argument
Talk #36, Friday, July 31, 4:30 - 4:50 p.m.
     Authors: M. Anne Britt, Rebecca Sandak, Charles Perfetti, and
Jean-Francois Rouet
     Title: Content integration and source separation in learning from
multiple texts
Talk #37, Friday, July 31, 4:55 - 5:15 p.m.
     Authors: Bonnie McLain-Allen and Douglas J. Hacker
     Title: Delayed revisions

Friday, Paper Session 11

Talk #38, Friday, July 31, 4:10 - 4:25 p.m.
     Authors: Per Persson
     Title: Coherence and inference generation in cinematic texts
Talk #39, Friday, July 31, 4:30 - 4:50 p.m.
     Authors: David Mortensen
     Title: Boundary crossing in miscommunication and problematic talk
Talk #40, Friday, July 31, 4:55 - 5:15 p.m.
     Authors: Stanton Wortham
     Title: Denotational and interactional structure in autobiographical
narrative: A dialogic approach


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Department of Psychology
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(608) 262-6989



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