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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The Society for Text & Discourse</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (ST&D) is pleased
 to announce our 31<sup>st</sup> Annual Meeting, to be held online August 2 – August 4, 2021, with sessions to be held both asynchronously via Flipgrid and synchronously via Zoom. ST&D is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of
 text and discourse including processing and analysis. The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and to contribute to the education and professional development
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite students and scholars from various disciplines (e.g., Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Learning Sciences, Education, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Communication
 Sciences, Health Literacy) to submit proposals to the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse. Full details regarding the submission and review processes can be found on our call for papers, linked below.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">We are now accepting submissions for ST&D 2021, with a closing date of March 15, 2021. Reviews and decisions will be
 communicated to authors before the end of May, 2021.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Call for papers</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/std2021">https://easychair.org/cfp/std2021</a>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission link:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2021" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1D419F">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2021</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Michael (Mike) C. Mensink, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Secretary, Society for Text & Discourse<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psychology Department<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Wisconsin-Stout<o:p></o:p></p>
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