ISFC 2008
21-15 July, Macquarie University
Voices Around the World
The deadline for ISFC Submission has been extended to 31 March, 2008.
For more information, please visit:
http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/isfc/
Congress Theme
The theme of The 35th International Systemic Functional Congress is Voices Around the World, emphasizing the rich multi-faceted nature of contributions to systemic functional linguistics around the world and the centrality of all the regions that make up the global systemic functional community and promoting regional resonances and complementarities. Like the theme of previous ISFCs, this theme is intended to be broad and inclusive. It is intended to be multiply interpretable, promoting regional contributions in terms of:
- Engagement with the rich range of languages - and other semiotic systems - around the world as objects of study;
- Engagement with the varied contexts of research and application around the regions of the world, including problems arising both in academic institutions and in the wider communities and also the implications of conducting systemic functional work in different languages;
- Engagement with the different institutional environments in which systemic functional linguistics is taught and in which systemic functional linguistics informs educational efforts - the different curricular contexts in which systemic functional linguistics operates;
- Engagement with the different “dialects” and “registers” of systemic functional linguistics around the world, with an emphasis on both commonalities and complementarities.
- Engagement with different “metalanguages” close enough to systemic functional linguistics to allow for inter-translatability and cross-fertilization.
The congress theme of Voices Around the World will be supported not only by the programme subcommittee of the local organizing committee but also by a special regional subcommittee.
Relating to the congress theme of Voices Around the World, the congress will be designed to promote the development of:
- Resource Networks around the world - networks for sharing resources across regions and across institutions, taking advantage of the regional and global systemic functional communities during a period when resources sharing is increasingly being supported by technological developments at the same time as individual institutions are increasingly being positioned to compete with one another in local and national contexts;
- Research Networks around the world - networks for pursuing research defined in terms of fields such as educational linguistics, translation studies, computational linguistics, multimodal studies, stylistics or themes such as systemic organization, complexity, semogenesis, helping to identify synergies and to develop collaborative research projects, potentially drawing on new sources of funding.
Existing Resource and Research Networks will be supported in the organization of the programme through workshops and papers, and the formation of new networks will be encouraged and supported. In addition, these Networks will be supported in the programme through a forum for reporting on and comparing activities relating to different fields and themes. The Resource Networks can be compared with the development of repositories in linguistics, as within the Linguistic Data Consortium, and the Research Networks can be compared with the research networks established by AILA (and the earlier scientific commissions) and with research networks more generally supported by funding agencies.
Registration
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