Program
The Pre-ISFC2008 Winter Institute will be organized around six courses (varying in length from two to four days), with project presentations, demonstrations and interactive workshops. There will also be some general sessions which all participants can attend. Two courses will be offered simultaneously (totalling six courses over the whole week), allowing participants to choose three courses during the Institute. For the timetable of courses, see below.
Following are the six courses which will be offered during the Institute. For more detail, see below.
Course A
Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory and Practice
“Network Writing”
J. R. Martin
Course B
Discourse Analysis
“Discourse Analytics in the service of professions”
David Butt & Alison Moore
Course C
LOTE
“Advanced Foreign/ Second/ Heritage Language Learners and SFL”
Cecilia Colombi
Course D
TESOL
“TBA”
John Polias
Course E
Multimodality
“Basic techniques and problems in multimodal analysis”
John Bateman
Course F
Interpersonal Semantics
“Applying Appraisal — analyzing attitude, alignment and authorial voice in student writing and mass communicative discourse”
Peter R.R. White
Special Guest Lecture
Christian Matthiessen
“Language engineering: applying SFL to wide range of context”