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Objectives

The main objectives of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association are to:

  1. promote scholarship and research in SFL
  2. disseminate the results of research in SF linguistic theory
  3. organise national conferences around SF linguistic theory and related fields
  4. support appropriate SFL teaching activities
  5. maintain the relationship with the International SFLA

Click here to read the ASFLA Constitution.

ASFLA Annual Conference 2009

See the Conferences page for details.

ASFLA 2007 Online Proceedings

If Systemic Functional Linguistics is an ‘appliable’ linguistics, it should be sufficiently portable to be deployed in all cultural and disciplinary contexts. In addition, it should be sufficiently elegant so as to be involved in the practical activity of expanding discourses, by bringing to consciousness discursive practices that might otherwise remain below-view. These factors were clearly displayed in the range of papers presented at ASFLA 2007. Bridging discourses was the theme of this Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association held at the University of Wollongong 29th June – 1st July 2007. The papers contained in the proceedings herein are examples of work that enacts two important senses of the process of bridging: bridging as sustaining complex argumentation and bridging as giving us entry into different discursive communities.
~ Michele Zappavigna & Carmel Cloran (Editors)

You can access the ASFLA 2007 Proceedings by following the links on the left.