LCMND's 38th Conference: 1995 Proceedings vol. 35
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings

pdf 2011: volume 35 /1995


Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Eighth Conference
November 3rd & 4th, 1995
Minot, N.D.

Hosted by Minot State University
at the Holiday Inn Riverside

Reception at the home of George & Joanne Slanger



48 p.
Cover: ochre-orange
Published for the Linguistic Circle by Century Creations, Grand Forks, ND 58201, U.S.A.
ISSN 0075-9597

1995 LCMND Officers:
President: Harold Smith, Minot SU; Vice-President: Gaby Divay, UM;
Past-President: Neil Besner, UW; Secretary-Treasurer: Karen Malcolm, UW

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Theodore Messenger, UND.
Honorary Presidents: Mary Ellen Caldwell, UND; Ben L. Collins, UND & Creighton University;
Louis Palanca, UND; J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM;Walter Swayze, UW.

Foreword: "Unfortunately, a number of people who had been planning to attend
were prevented from doing so by a severe snow storm..."
This was particularly true for the majority of UM & UW members from Winnipeg!

1995 LCMND President "welcomed those who had arrived,
introduced Minot State University President, H. Erik Shaar,
who graciously welcomed everyone on behalf of the University."


The 1995 LCMND Program [36 papers]:

A presidential welcome / H. E. Shaar, pp. v-x

    1. Le systeme de l'alimentation chez Balzac / Marie-Christine Aubin, College Universitaire de St. Boniface, Man.
    2. Cross thinking in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron / Nancy Erickson Bouzrara, UND.
    3. Le cas de Bernard dans 'Le Rendez-vous' de Colette / Carman Bradford, UM.
    4. Gawain and the transforming power of obedience in Chaucer's Tale / Muriel Brown, NDSU.
    5. Authorial presence in 'La Princesse de Cleve' [by Mme de LaFayette] / Constance Cartmill & Rebecca Colborne, UM.
    6. La mujer en la sociedad de consumo en 'Yo Yendo unos ojos negros' por Alicia Yanez Cossio / Emilia Chuquin Amaguana, Minot SU.
    7. Andre Malraux in the information age / Rebecca Colborne, UM.
    8. Myth, fiction and reality in Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds' / Ben L. Collins, Creighton Univers., Omaha & UND.
    9. Pagan myth in Edna O'Brien's fiction / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Creighton Univ.
    10. Cicero's philosophy of religion / Joseph G. DeFilippo, UND.
    11. Re-writing Joyce: yes, bo, maybe yes / Stephen Dilks, UND.
    12. Maxwell Anderson's two North Dakota plays / Eric Furuseth, Minot Su.
    13. The americanization of America in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's 'The Celebrant' / David Godfrey, Jamestown College, N.D.
    14. On the way to truth: visual and verbal signs in Rabelais / Alex. L. Gordon, UM.
    15. Images of Prairie people in Gabrielle Roy's last works / Carol J. Harvey, UW.
    16. Bold insecurities: Ignacio Aldecoa's 'The 7:40 Bus' / Shirley King, UND.
    17. Discourse structure and communicative power / Karen Malcolm, UW.
    18. Superstatic: regulation & interference in the production of contemporary poetry / Kevin Marzahl, UND.
    19. Spiritual geography, in four mid-western novels [inspired by Kathleen Noriss' ('Dakota, a spiritual geography', 1983; discussed are Jon Hassler, Sharon Butala, Eliz. Cook-Lynn & Michael Dorris] / Tom Matchie, NDSU.
    20. Creoles: the Cinderella of linguistic systems / Lena McCourtie, UW.
    21. Valerius Maximus' famous deeds in words: the most important book next to the Bible / Iain McDougall, UW.
    22. Some glosses on glossalia / Tim Messenger & David F. Marshall, UND.
    23. Le langage des groupes de discussion electronique: code ecrit ou oral? / Raymond Mopoho, U of Regina.
    24. Feminisme et creolite dans 'Texaco' de Patrick Chamoiseau / Joseph Nnadi, UW.
    25. Dedoublement and frustration of the poets wishes in Musset's 'Les Voeux Steriles' / Graham Padgett, UM.
    26. Carson McCullers' 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe': misogyny & 'ganging up" / Susanne Morrow Paulsen, Minot State U.
    27. Surrealist realism in Djuna Barnes' 'Nightwood' [& Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc. in Paris, 1920 & 1930s] / Sarah M. Penick, Westminster College.
    28. Inversions & parallels in the novel 'Sexing the Cherry' [by Jeanette Winterson, 1992] / Shelly Scott, UND.
    29. Surfen und Anklicken: English loans in current computer German / Jack T. M. Simmons, UND-Lake Region.
    30. Messing with metrics, or, Does prosody exist? / George Slanger, Minot SU.
    31. Images of Self and others: British South Africans in Bryce Courtenay's 'The Power of One', 1989 / Stephani P. Smith, Minot SU.
    32. "We ate like there was no tomorrow:" Raymond Carver's stories / Tony Steele, UM.
    33. Alan Dean Foster's "Alien linguistic markers" / Sherrie Stoskopf.
    34. John Webster's ' Duchess of Malfi': how much revenge? how much corruption? / Andrew Trump, NDSU.
    35. Crossing Borders: gay love stories in divided Berlin [about the film 'Westler' by Weiland Speck, 1985, and the 1992 novel by Friedrich Krohnke, 'P14'] / Robert Uebel, NDSU.
    36. "Now we see through a glass darkly: translating the mystical poems of St. Theresa of Avila / Eric W. Vogt, UND.
    37. Voice in the wilderness: the character Charles Neumiller's voice, language, place & faith in Woiwode's 'Beyond the Bedroom Wall', and 'Born Brothers' / Richard Watson, Minot SU.