Conference Program
10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Moore 103
1-A: Language Acquisition
The Semantic Acquisition of the Universal Quantifier ‘every’ by Korean Adult L2 Learners of English • Eun-Jeong Kim, Second Language Studies
Acquisition of the Scope Interaction between Numeral Quantifiers and Negation in Korean • Hye-Young Kwak, Linguistics
Testing Covert Downward Entailment in Child Chinese • Wei Chu, SLS; Li Zeng, English, Shanghai International Studies University, China
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10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Moore 111
1-B: Spanish Panel*
Escribir de esas condenadas mujeres: personajes feministas en La Viuda del Panamá (Writing about these Darned Women: Feminist Characters in La Viuda del Panama) • Maria Cecilia Herrera Astua, English
Idealización feminista en cuatro roles de Ana Torrent desde niña a mujer [From Child to Woman: Female Idealization in Four roles of Ana Torrent] • Nancy Santoni Wysard, LLEA, Spanish
Immigrating feminist discourse: the Globalization of women as evident in Spanish film • Laura Cristina Pino-Lopez, LLEA
* This panel will be presented in Spanish.
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10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Moore 112
1-C: Language Planning
Pingelapese: Orthography and literacy materials development • Ryoko Hattori, Linguistics; Dayne Manlulu Lemuel, Biology
English Language Schools in the Kingdom of Hawaii: A Critical Discourse Analysis • Rubén Fernández Asensio, Second Language Studies
Organization in Language Documentation and Conservation • Katya Jenson, Linguistics; Frans Jozef Velasco Albarillo, Linguistics
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10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Moore 119
1-D: Literature and History
The Fairy-tale Paradigm: Contemporary Legend on Hans Christian Andersen’s Parentage • Kirsten Møllegaard, English
Defining the Characters of “Three Generations” • Sue A. Hall, SHAPS, Korean Studies
"The Company" and the Nation: Rhetorical Performativity in the Bollywood Film The Rising • Bed Prasad Poudyal, English
Chasing Tale: Hanuman, simple simian to sex magnet • Jessica Lee Jacob, Theatre
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10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Moore 120
1-E: Computational Linguistics
Sanskrit, Self-referentiality and Computational Linguistics • Christopher Aaron Handy, Religion
Semi-automatic labeling of intonation in the ToBI framework • Diana Stojanovic, Linguistics; Yohei Sakata, Linguistics
Developing Socio-Technical Capital in a bilingual network • Matthew A. Chapman, ICS
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12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Moore 103
2-A: SLS - Curriculum
Preparing to teach languages in public schools: A case study of influences on pre-service teachers’ thinking • Doris Heisig Christopher, College of Education, Institute for Teacher Education
Realities of English-only classes in Korea: teachers should not be blamed • Bong-gi Sohn, Second Language Studies
Does implementing critical literacy have to conflict with EAP reading curriculum? • Woomi Shin, Second Language Studies
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12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Moore 111
2-B: Literature and Society
End of the World in 20th Century American Pop Culture: Film, Radio, and Books • James Heiner
Reasonable Doubts: Chinese American Identity, Interracial Love, and Model Minority Discourse in Gus Lee’s No Physical Evidence • Calvin Lee McMillin, English
Aww, Skeet, Skeet, Skeet: Baudrillard, Lil' Jon, and the Rhetorical Challenge to the Hyperreal • Ryan Masaaki Omizo, English
A View of the "Montaigne": A Look at How Montaigne Influenced Fielding’s Views of Pedagogy Elise Carol Thomasson, LLEA, French
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12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Moore 112
2-C: Syntax and Historical Linguistics
Mechanisms of Syntax-Semantics Mismatch: Some Particular Verb-Object Constructions in Mandarin Chinese Shu-Ling Wu, EALL
The Involuntary state construction in Serbo-Croatian • Tatjana Ilic, Linguistics
A Pedagogical Application of Global Grammar to Locative and Directional Phrases in Chinese and Thai • Chanyaporn Parinyavottichai, EALL
Contact-induced changes in the languages of Hainan • Karen Huang, Linguistics
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12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Moore 119
2-D: Literary Culture and Media
The New English: Incorporating Indigenous Voice into the Canon • Kimo Armitage, English; Michael Puleloa, English
‘Ōiwi: a Native Hawaiian Journal as a Written Mo‘okū‘auhau of Resistance • Brandy Nālani McDougall, English
‘Onipa‘a ka ‘Oia‘i‘o: Long ignored voices challenge the historiography of Hawai’i Nei • Ronald Clayton Williams Jr, Pacific Island Studies
Radio Free Hawaii: The Rhetoric of Media Dissent • Jeela Ongley, English
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12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Moore 120
2-E: Women's Studies
The Feminine Presence in the First Book of Montaigne’s Essais • Christian Hall, LLEA/French
Fimmine: A Feminist Look at Sarah Swenson’s Dance Through Ideas of (Re)presenting Bodies & ‘Plunging into Pastness’ • Marisol Angela Garcia, English
Sleuthing the State: Borderlands and Global Contingencies in Contemporary Detective Fiction • Brianne P. Gallagher, Political Science and Women’s Studies Cancelled
Crossing the border: Gender and language learning of a female Japanese student in the U.S. university system • Kyoko Ide, Second Language Studies
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location: Moore 103
3-A: Cognitive and Psycholinguistics
Syntactic ambiguity resolution by L2 learners: Relative clause attachment in Japanese • Mari Miyao, Second Language Studies
Understanding English Prepositions: Mental Simulation in Users of English as a Second Language • Brian Shoen, Second Language Studies
A Research Synthesis of L2 Working Memory Measurements • Yukiko Watanabe, SLS; Joara Martin Bergsleithner, NFLRC
Does conventionality matter in metaphor understanding? • Sachie Maruyama, Linguistics
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location: Moore 111
3-B: Rhetoric
Contemporary Issues in Rhetoric: Rhetoric in the Classroom • Conred Maddox, Jr, English
Contemporary Issues in Rhetoric: Visions of the American Dream in John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” • Jill Dahlman, English
Time to Get Real Gone: Boarding the Burkian Mystery Train for a Ride on the Pentadic • Timothy Phillips Marmack, English
Music As Intertext: Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young • William J. Bauer, English
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location: Moore 112
3-C: Language and Society in Japan
Children’s identities, school practice, and social change: An ethnographic study of a grass-roots bilingual school in Japan • Waka Tominaga, East Asian Language and Literatures
The shift between personal pronouns and jibun: its strategic use in a Japanese teenagers' talk show • Tomoko Ikuta Ernst, Linguistics
Reexamination of Politeness Strategies in Workplace Settings in Japan • Yuko Miyoshi, Linguistics
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location: Moore 119
3-D: Second Language Pedagogy
Pilot Study on the Effect of Grouping and Compositional Analysis on Chinese Character Retention • Warren Daniel Child, East Asian Languages and Literature
An algorithmic method for remembering exceptions in the use of the Subjunctive in French • Iskandar Pierre Rabeendran, LLEA
Fluency and Placement Ratings in Second Language Writing • Sae Rhim Oh, Second Language Studies
On the tension of form and meaning • Sang-Ki Lee, Second Language Studies
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2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location: Moore 120
3-E: Creative Writing
The Sushi Bar at the Edge of Forever • Calvin Lee McMillin, English
Tongues & a Thousand Eyes in Kailua • Clinton John Frakes, English
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All events are free and open to the public