LCMND's 42nd Conference: 1999 Proceedings vol. 39
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 39 / 1999


Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Forty-Second Conference
Celebrating Forty Years of Annual Meetings, 1959-1999
October 22nd & 23rd, 1999
Grand Forks, N.D.

Hosted by the University of North Dakota
at the Best Western Town House Motor Inn



53 p.
Cover: soft-green

Published for the LCMND by Chandice Johnson, NDSU
ISSN 0075-9795
With v. 41 / 2001, the url of the LCMND website is printed on the back-cover:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/linguistic_circle/

1999 LCMND Officers:
President: William Archibald, UND; Past-President: Mavis Reimer, UW;
Vice-President: Constance Cartmill, UM; Secetary-Treasurer: Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, UW.

Proceedings: Chandice Johnson, NDSU
Honorary Presidents Mary Ellen Caldwell, UND; Ben L. Collins, UND; Louis Palanca, UND;
Wayne [sic! for Walter] Swayze, UW.

Inside back cover: list of 11 Life Members.

Openings/Greetings from Albert Fivizzani, Dean of Arts and Sciences, UND



The 1999 LCMND Program [29 papers]:
History of the LCMND / Theodore Messenger, UND, p.7-8
Program, p.9-11

  1. JraPlay: A computer program for he analysis of literary & linguistic texts / John R. Allen, UM.
  2. The "Canadianizing" of Ukrainians: Vera Lysenko, William Paluk, & Maara Haas / Natalia Aponiuk & Alexandra Pawlowsky, UM.
  3. Thinking of Dean Moriarty: The road fiction of Jack Kerouac & Richard Ford / Gordon Beveridge, UM.
  4. "If I were a woman, I would be in love with Rick": The homoerotics of hard-boiled masculinity from 'Casablanca' to 'LA Confidential' / Elizabeth Birmingham, NDSU.
  5. The sacrificial woman: Classical Hollywood melodrama through the lens of the home movie / Jennifer Bottinelli, UND.
  6. Composition in the Red River Valley: An historical overview / Kevin Brooks, NDSU.
  7. Modeling the (M)other: Maternal role exchange in Edgeworth's Belinda / Melissa Brotton , UND.
  8. "Achieved Harmony": Imagery as structure in Robert Browning's 'Meeting at Night' & 'Parting at Morning' / Ben L. Collins, UND. & Lynn University, Palm Beach Atlantic College.
  9. The stylistic modification of idioms / Elizabeth Dawes, UW.
  10. Fact & fiction in F. P. Greve/Grove's autobiographies: His passage to America (1909) & a Bonanza Farm in the Dakotas (1912) / Gaby Divay, UM.
  11. From Petrarch to Lope de Vega: The evolution of a theme / Gene W. DuBois, UND.
  12. Some observations of the style of Pliny's letters / Dan Erickson, UND.
  13. Views of polygamy in Mariama Ba's 'Une si longue lettre' and 'Un chant ecarlate' / Sherrie M. Fleshman, UND.
  14. The relationship of Lord Byron's satire 'Don Juan' to his tragedies 'Marino Faliero', 'Sardanapalus', & 'The three Foscari' / Eric Furuseth, Minot SU.
  15. The most exciting literary event in France in thirty years: Why all the fuss over Michel Houllebecq's 'Les particules elementaires'? / Alex. L. Gordon, UM.
  16. Roland Barthes et le mystere du sujet fantome! (R. B. & the mystery of the phantom subject!) / Stephane Hardy, UM.
  17. Interpreting the sign: Paul DeMan's critique of Michael Riffaterre's semiotics of the lyric / Allen Helmstetter, UND.
  18. L'ambivalence du discours ideologique dans les romans de George Sand / Dominique Laporte, UM.
  19. La mere indigne / Andre Lebugle, UND.
  20. La sagesse des cons / Alan MacDonell, UM.
  21. Writing about Nativa Americans: The native & the non-native author/crititc / Thomas Matchie, NDSU.
  22. The language of teasing / Theodore Messenger & John Hoover, UND.
  23. Semiology, semiotics, & language / Donald V. Poochgian, UND.
  24. Elena Garro: Introducing a new side of reality / Patricia Orozco Rangel, UND.
  25. Multiple perspective narratives: An investigation into the influence of William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' upon Graham Swift's 'Last Orders' / Scott Randall, UND.
  26. Memory & Imagination in the poetry of Margalit Matitiahu / Kathleen Rettig, Creighton Univ.
  27. Narratives in classroom& professional scholarships: Reporting cross-disciplinary survey research / Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, UW.
  28. Principles of optimization of vocabulary study / Bakhodir Samadov, Univ. of World Economy & Diplomacy, Tashkent.
  29. The presence of absence in Emily Dickinson / George Slanger, MSU.