For a complete conference schedule, please click the following PDF link: 2009 Detailed Schedule (PDF)


Thursday,  April 12, 2009
Watson Library, Second Floor Faculty-Student Reading Room
7.00-8.30 pm Resources for Linguists & Cultural Researchers in North Louisiana
Mary Linn Wernet, Cammie G. Henry Research Center
Janet Colson, Creole Center
Dayna Lee, Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
Lisa Abney, Louisiana Folklife Center
Friday, April 13, 2009 
Sylvan Friedman Student Center
8.30-9.00 am Registration
9.30-10.40 am Session 1: Regional Dialect & Languages
10.40-11.00 am Break
11.00-12.15 pm

Session 2: Lexical Studies of Regions & Countries
Session 2A: SAADS Panel, Creole Language & Identity
12.15-1.50 pm Lunch and Meeting of SECOL Executive Board
2.00-4.05 pm Session 3: Research in English as a Second Language
Session 3A: Linguistic Methodology & Studies in Phonology
4.05-4.30 pm Break
4.30-6.35 pm Session 4: Research in Attitudes about Language
Session 4A: Discourse Analysis
6.35-7.15 pm Social hour and cash bar
7.30-8.15 pm Plenary Session: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture—Language in the South
Chairs: Ellen Johnson, & Michael Montgomery
Saturday, April 14, 2009
Sylvan Friedman Student Center
8.00-8.25 am SECOL business meeting
9.30-9.00 am SECOL Check-in begins at Friedman Student Center Lobby / Coffee and refreshments
9.00-11.05 am Session 5: Special Panel 1: Views on the Role of Explicit Teaching in Language Classes
Session 5A: Language & Identity
11.00-1.00 pm Lunch
1.00-2.55 pm Session 6: Special Panel 2: Re-examining Language Data in the American South
Session 6A: Writing & Speaking: Identity & Language Use in  Multi-Lingual Settings
3.05-3.30 pm Break
3.30-5.45 pm Session 7: Syntax, Semantics, & Cognitive Linguistics
Session 7A: Special Panel 3: Gender & Language in Professional Discourse
Session 7B: African-American & Anglo Dialects, & Language & Gender in Southern English
6.15-8.30 pm End of conference celebration