From: graesserac@memstvx1.memst.edu ()
Subject: STD announcement, call for papers
Summary: society for text and discourse
Organization: Memphis State University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:13:58 GMT
Expires: Fri, 1 May 1992 07:00:00 GMT


                    Society for Text and Discourse

               Call for Papers for Second Annual Meeting

                           June 19-20, 1992
                     Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel
                        San Diego, California

   We invite you to submit a proposal for a paper or symposium at the
second annual meeting for the Society for Text and Discourse (STD). This
year the meetings of the STD will be piggybacked on the American
Psychological Society, which will be held in the same hotel June 20-22,
1992.  Please note that the meeting times of these two conferences will
not overlap.  The STD will end at 2:00 p.m. on June 20 whereas the APS
will begin at 2:00 p.m.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
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   The conference organizers for the STD meeting this year will be Richard
Alterman and Nancy Stein.  However, your proposals and all other STD
correspondence should be sent to Bruce Britton, the secretary/treasurer of
STD:

                        Bruce Britton
                        Institute for Behavioral Research
                        University of Georgia
                        Athens GA  30602
                        (404) 542-3094

                        IBR@UGA.BITNET

   Paper proposals should include: (1) a title, (2) the authors and their
institutions, (3) an address, telephone number, and email address of the
person presenting the research, and (4) a 150 word abstract.  Symposium
proposals should include (1) a symposium title, (2) a list of symposium
participants, their institutions, and their roles, e.g., chair, presenter,
discussant, (3) a 300 word abstract of the theme, scope, and content of the
symposium, and (4) an address, telephone number, and email address of the
organizer of the symposium.  Three copies of each proposal should be sent
to Bruce Britton.  The deadline for the proposals is May 1, 1992.
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Location
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   The conference will be held at the Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel in San
Diego.  Participants of the STD can receive discount rates on the rooms
because of special arrangements that the STD has made with APS (it is not
necessary to register for the APS convention in order to receive these
discount rates).  Contact the hotel directly in order to make your lodging
arrangements.  The discounted rate is $89 per night for any size room.
When making your reservation you must mention that you are with APS.

                         Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel
                         1380 Harbor Island Drive
                         San Diego CA  92101
                         (619) 291-2900

Registration fee
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   There will be a $15 registration fee, which may be paid when you arrive at
the conference.

Objectives of the new society
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   The Society for Text and Discourse focuses on research in discourse
processing and text analysis.  This area of research investigates the
representations, structures, and processes that underlie the comprehension
and production of connected discourse. Examples of connected discourse are
stories, scientific prose, newspaper articles, persuasive editorials,
scripts of plays, literature, and conversation.

   At present, the field of discourse processing is distributed among several
disciplines:  psychology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics,
sociology, anthropology, communications, and philosophy.  Although
research in discourse processing is reported at several conferences (e.g.,
Cognitive Science, Psychonomic Science, American Educational Research
Asociation, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and many
others), it is not the primary focus at any of these meetings.  The purpose
of the Society for Text and Discourse is to consolidate research in
discourse processing and to enhance communication among researchers in
different disciplines.  We believe that the field of discourse processing
will benefit from a professional society.

   For further information, contact Bruce Britton at the above address, or
respond to this announcement.