The theme for this year's annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature (LLL) was "In a Word," which captured a basic component that runs through the College of LLL since words are essential to the work students do in each of the departments that form the College. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Jeffrey Carroll, which was followed by a poignant and provocative keynote from LLL's own Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui. Presentations followed from a group of 20 graduate students, who shared their research with approximately 80 attendees from the UH community. Following a preface from the editors and plenary highlights from Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui, contents of these proceedings include: (1) Critical Reading in an ESL Classroom (Jessica Fast); (2) Cross-Curricular Critical Pedagogy in a Multilingual Multicultural Classroom (Samuel Aguirre); (3) Interactional Functions of Demonstratives in Korean and Japanese Conversation (Ok-sim Kim); (4) Living Mo'olelo for Young Adults: Story, Language, and Form in "Of No Real Account" (Caryn Kunz Lesuma); (5) The Syntactic Position of the Japanese SFP "NE" and Its Implications for the Japanese Clausal Structure (Ryan Hughes); (6) The Function of Language Alternation in Mandarin Tutoring Sessions (Ding Wang); (7) An Analysis of Subjectivity and the Color Line in Nella Larsen's "Passing" (Janet J. Graham); (8) Brave New Worlds: A Reparative Reading of (Post)Colonial "Tempests" (Chase Wiggins); and (9) Generalizing and Epistemic Authority: Online Anonymous Advice Giving in Japanese (Olivia Cassetta). Individual papers contain references. [For the 2014 Proceedings, see ED573745.]