| 2022 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Don’t Believe What Your Mother Told You: Tamping Down Myths About the Causes of Illnesses.” Talk to be presented at panel “Folklore and Illness.” Modern Langauges Association. Washington, D.C., January 2022. |
| 2021 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Peer Health Advice through Internet Meme Speech Acts.” Talk to be presented at the International Society for the Linguistics of English, at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, June 3, 2021. |
| 2021 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Making Online Group Work Appealing Through Wikipedia Editing.” Panelist at the Scholarly Teaching in the Age of Covid-19 and Beyond, organized session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Online. January 9, 2021. |
| 2020 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Tempering and Aligning Advice-Giving Through Memes.” First International Twitter Conference on Linguistics – #Linguistweets, hosted by Abralin, the Brazilian Linguistics Association. Twitter thread. December 4, 2020. |
| 2020 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Electronic Word of Mouth: Spreading Health Information via Internet Memes.” Talk presented at the panel “Being Human, Technology, and New Media.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, Washington. January 11, 2020. |
| 2020 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Health Advice Speech Acts via Internet Memes.” Poster to be presented at the American Dialect Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. January 3, 2020. |
| 2019 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Speech Acts Online: Internet Memes Conveying Health Advice.” Poster presented at the DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference. University of North Texas. Nov. 8, 2019. |
| 2019 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “An Internet Meme Sub-Corpus of Peer Health Advice.” Poster presented at the the Health Across the Lifespan symposium. UT Arlington. April 24, 2019. |
| 2019 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith and Becky Garner. “College Student Perspectives on Prediabetes Risks.” Poster presented at the the Health Across the Lifespan symposium. UT Arlington. April 24, 2019. |
| 2018 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Cultivating New Student Editors in the Linguistics Classroom.” Presented at WikiConference North America 2018, at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 21, 2018. |
| 2017 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith and Becky Garner. “Health as a Foreign Language: Student Perspectives on Pre-Diabetes.” Poster presented at the Workshop of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Health & Science Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) “Chronic Disease and Language: Understanding Social and Linguistic Representations to Improve Treatment and Prevention,” Lancaster University, UK, November 29, 2017. |
| 2017 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith, Jacqueline Fay, and Sridhar Nerur. “Compiling a Thematic Diachronic Corpus: Challenges in Piloting H-CODE.” Paper presented at Big Data and Medieval Studies, the Present and Future of Medieval Text Archives, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 2017. |
| 2017 |
Garner, Becky, Laurel Stvan and Sridhar Nerur. “What students believe is healthy: Language clues in pre-diabetic populations.” Paper presented at the 15th Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, June 27, 2017. |
| 2016 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Beliefs Connecting Food to Health: Lexical Conflation in CADOH.” Paper presented at the 61st Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association–Culinary Linguistics, at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, March 12, 2016. |
| 2015 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith and David J. Silva. “Engaged Etymologies: Active Learning in the Teaching of Word Formation and Etymology.” Panelists presenting at the Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable at the Modern Language Association, Vancouver, January 9, 2015. |
| 2014 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Fats Make You Fat”: Linguistic Reinforcement of Beliefs about the Causes of Health and Illness.” Paper presented at the 12th Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET), Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. June 27, 2014. |
| 2014 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Truth is, sentence-initial bare shell nouns are increasing.” Paper presented at The Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. June 6, 2014. |
| 2014 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Corpus linguistics of the vernacular: ‘catching a cold’ in text types that complement Google Books data.” Poster presented at the at the Texas Digital Humantities Conference,, University of Houston, Houston, TX, April 11, 2014. |
| 2013 |
Jessica Murphy, Rafia Mirza, Laurel Smith Stvan, and Katherine Engel. Panelists: “What Are the Digital Humanities and What Do They Want from Libraries?” at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, August 16, 2013. |
| 2013 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Predicates of Causation: The Influence of Polysemy Pairs in Lay Health Discourse.” Paper presented at the CRAL 2013, Third International Conference on Meaning Construction, Meaning Interpretation: Applications and Implications. The Center for Research on the Applications of Language, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, July 18-20, 2013. |
| 2013 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse.” (poster pdf). Poster presented at the 2013 JPS Research Day, Office of Human Research Protections Community Research Forum, Fort Worth, TX, June 7, 2013. |
| 2012 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Metonymy-driven Polysemy in Health Discourse.” Paper presented at the Researching and Applying Metaphor conference (RaAM 9), Lancaster University, UK, July 5, 2012. |
| 2012 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Take it with a Pinch of Salt: Polysemy in Vernacular Discussion of Salt.” Presented at the 7th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio, February 25, 2012. |
| 2011 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation.” (poster pdf). Presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2011: Discourse and Corpus Linguistics conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, July 21, 2011. |
| 2011 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “You’ll Catch Your Death of Cold”: The Influence of Lexical Conflation on Beliefs about Causation.” Presented at the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) at Boston University, June 20, 2011. |
| 2010 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Catching Cold: Polysemous Reinforcement of Beliefs about Causation.” Presented at the 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, July 7, 2010. |
| 2010. |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Stress Management: Corpus-based insights into Vernacular Interpretations of Stress.” Presented at the Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET), Boston University, June 28, 2010. |
| 2009 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Where Are They Bare? The Frequency and Distribution of Bare Nouns in American English.” Presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2009), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Oct. 10, 2009. |
| 2009 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Learning English Bare Singulars: Corpus Approaches for the L2 Classroom” Presented at the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Liverpool, UK, July 22, 2009. |
| 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” (abstract). Presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Chicago, IL. January 7, 2000. |
| 1999 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Bare Singular NPs as Generic Expressions” (abstract). Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Los Angeles, CA. January 8, 1999. |
| 1998 |
Stvan, Laurel Smith. “How About It? The Role of Accent and Context in Determining Discourse Function” (abstract). Presented at the Tenth Annual Student Conference in Linguistics, June 7, 1998. |
| 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. |
