Laurel Smith Stvan

Publications

Presentations

Journal Articles
To appear. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Semantic Incorporation as an Account for some Bare Singular Count Noun Uses in English," in Lingua.
2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Lexical Conflation and Edible Iconicity: Two Sources of Ambiguity in American Vernacular Health Terminology." In Communication & Medicine 4(2): 189-199.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "The Contingent Meaning of -ex Brand Names in English," (pdf). In Corpora 1(2): 217-250.
2005. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Inferring New Vocabulary Using Online Texts." Computers in the Schools 22(1/2): 85-96. (Published simultaneously in the volume Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education, ed. by Cleborne D. Maddux)

Book Chapters
2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "The Functional Range of Bare Singular Count Nouns in English." In Nominal Determination: Typology, Context Constraints, and Historical Emergence (Studies in Language Companion Series 89), Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss, Werner Abraham, (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 171-187.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Diachronic Change in The Discourse Markers Why and Say in American English." In Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English. Ana María Hornero, María José Luzón, and Silvia Murillo, (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang Verlag. Pp. 61-76.

Thesis
1998. Stvan, Laurel Smith. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Bare Singular Noun Phrases. Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University. (abstract). (PDF files).

Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
To appear. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Health Literacy: A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated?" The Language of Health Care: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care. IULMA: University of Alicante, Spain.
2003. Vana, S., Boppana, P., Mariappan, V., Stvan, L., & Aslandogan, Y. "Empowering Educators in Visual Learning: Information Extraction and Visualization for Automatic Generation of Multimedia Presentations" in Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2003(1), 1371-1374.

2001. Serdiukov, Peter and Laurel Smith Stvan. "ESL/EFL Websites: What Should the Teachers and Students Be Prepared to Find On the Internet?" Proceedings of the WebNet 2001 World Conference on the WWW and Internet. Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Pp. 1102-1105. (Revised as ERIC pdf, 29 pp.)
2001. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "How About It? The Role of Accent and Context in Determining Discourse Function." Papers from the Tenth Annual Student Conference in Linguistics, 1998. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #37, Feist et al. eds. Pp. 243-253.
1993. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?" Papers from the 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Beals, et al. eds. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 419-433.
1992. Bertram, Anne, Talke Macfarland, Mari Broman Olsen, and Laurel Smith Stvan. "Who Did What When: A Reference Guide," Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. Pp. 85-96.
1991. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Two Types of Bare Noun Reference in Prepositional Phrases," Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3. Pp. 147-154.

Book Reviews and Book Notes
To appear. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Review of Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet Health Column, by Miriam A. Locher (2006)" in Language in Society.
2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Review of The Language of Websites, by Mark Boardman (2005)" in Language and Literature 16.4: 405-406.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Review of Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora, ed. by Geoff Barnbrook, Pernilla Danielsson, and Michaela Mahlberg (2005)" in Discourse Studies 8.2: 330-331.
2004. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Review of Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora, by Lynne Bowker and Jennifer Pearson (2002)" in Discourse Studies 6.2: 283-4.
2001. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Review of The Language of Speech and Writing, by Sandra Cornbleet and Ronald Carter (2001)" LINGUIST list 12.3000.

Volume Co-Editor
1993. Stvan, Laurel Smith, Stephen Ryberg, Mari Broman Olsen, Talke Macfarland, Linda DiDesidero, Anne Bertram, and Larin Adams. FLSM III: Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
1993. Stvan, Laurel Smith, Pilar Ron, Cathy Coppolillo, and Victoria Muehleisen. Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 5. Evanston, IL: NU Dept. of Linguistics.
1992. Stvan, Laurel Smith, Victoria Muehleisen, Talke Macfarland, and Larin Adams. Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. Evanston, IL: NU Dept. of Linguistics.



Selected by Abstract Submission
2008. Fauzi, Sarah, David Silva and Laurel Stvan. Panel presentation on "Linguistic Aspects of Cross-Cultural Health Discussions." Presented at the 2nd Annual TAHIT Symposium on Language Access (Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators), Fort Worth, TX. April 26, 2008.
2008. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Fat and Health Literacy: Two Revealing Terms in CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health)," (ppt). Presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. March 15, 2008.

2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Health Literacy: A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated?" [La alfabetización en salud: Una sola acepción o tres significados combinados?] Presented at the 1st International Conference on Language and Healthcare, Alicante, Spain. October 24, 2007.
2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Compounding Literacy: Examining Disciplines In Which Mastery Surpasses Words," (abstract). Presented at the 5th International Conference on the Book, Madrid, Spain. October 20, 2007.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Tracking Contextual Clues to Interpreting Coined Brand Morphology." Presented at the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics conference (AAACL 7), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. October 21, 2006.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Lexical Conflation and Edible Iconicity: Their Mnemonic Power in Vernacular Discussions of Food." Presented at the 4th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts, Dept. of Modern Languages, UT San Antonio. February 24, 2006.
2006. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Two Bare Singular Uses in English with Incorporation Traits." Presented at the Nominal Incorporation and its Kind conference (NIK), Univ. of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Feb. 20, 2006.
2005. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "The Functional Range of Bare Singulars." Presented at the Workshop on Nominal Determination at the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS). Cologne, Germany. February 23, 2005.
2003. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Diachronic Change in The Discourse Markers Why and Say In American English." Presented at the XII Susanne Hübner Seminar (Corpus Linguistics: Theory and Applications for the Study of English). Zaragoza, Spain. November 20, 2003.
2003. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Discourse Markers in the Classroom." Presented at TESOL 2003 (ITA-IS Academic Session on "Engagement as a Critical Component of Effective Teaching.") Baltimore, MD. March 28, 2003.
2003. Y. A. Aslandogan, S. Vana, P. Boppana, V. Mariappan, L. Stvan. "Empowering Educators in Visual Learning: Information Extraction and Visualization for, Automatic Generation of Multimedia Presentations," (abstract). Presented at the 14th annual international conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) (by Y. Aslandogan). Albuquerque, NM. March 26, 2003.

2002. Stvan, Laurel Smith. Why and Say: "Two Discourse Markers in Depicted Conversation,"(abstract). Presented at High Desert Linguistics Society V. Albuquerque, NM. November 1, 2002.

2002. Serdiukov, P. and L. Stvan. "Characteristics of ESL Web Sites." Presented at TESOL 2002 (by P. Serdiukov). Salt Lake City, UT. April 13, 2002.

2000. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Semantic Classes of Bare Singular NPs." Presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Chicago, IL. January 7, 2000.(abstract)
1999. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Bare Singular NPs as Generic Expressions." Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Los Angeles, CA. January 8, 1999. (abstract)
1998. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "How About It? The Role of Accent and Context in Determining Discourse Function." Presented at the Tenth Annual Student Conference in Linguistics, June 7, 1998 (abstract).
1997. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Leaving Home to Meet at School: Testing for Familiarity NPs." Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, IL. January 3, 1997.
1993. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?" Presented at the 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL. April 22, 1993.

Invited Talks
2007. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Plain and Compounded Literacy: Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Meaning Change." Presented (as a guest faculty speaker) at the Fifteenth Annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL. University of Texas at Arlington. November 1, 2007.
2005. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Productivity in English -ex Nominals Used as Trade Names." Presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, UT Austin. May 9, 2005.
2002. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "The Behavior of Locative NPs Found in Bare Singular Form." Presented at the GIAL Academic Forum. Dallas, TX. April 22, 2002.
2002. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Reference and Deixis." Presented as a guest lecture for CSE 6331 Advanced Topics in Database Systems: Data Mining and Information Extraction. UT Arlington. November 7, 2002.
2001. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Three Functions of Bare Singular NPs: Familiarity Implicature, Activity Implicature, and Generic Referring Expressions." Presented at the English Linguistics Speaker Series. Salt Lake City, UT. January 19, 2001.
2000. Stvan, Laurel Smith. "Categories of Locative NPs Found in Bare Singular Form." Presented at East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. February 18, 2000.

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