The Institute will be organised around four courses, with project presentations, demonstrations and informal workshops. There will also be some general sessions which all participants can attend. Two courses will be offered simultaneously (two in mornings and two in afternoons), allowing participants to choose to attend two courses during the Institute.

Morning courses

Discourse analysis (co-ordinators: A/Prof. David G. Butt, Rhondda Fahey, Dr. Annabelle Lukin & Dr. Alison Moore ): identifying problems in research institutions and the wider community that can be addressed through discourse analysis, choosing the form of analysis to be undertaken, carrying out the analysis, interpreting the results, developing materials based on the interpretation. The course will include work on grammar, semantics, context and intonation. There will also be a component on multimodal discourse analysis (led by Prof. Michael O'Toole ), providing a systemic functional approach to wider semiotic issues from architecture to narratology.

Recommended reading

Butt, D., Fahey, R., Feez, S., Spinks, S. & Yallop, C. (2000). Using Functional Grammar: An Explorer's Guide. NCELTR, Sydney.

(participants will also be given a set of course notes at the venue)

Session 1 : Understanding your "semiotic address": grammar, meaning and discourse

Session 2 : Between semantics and grammar: structure statements at the levels of meaning and form

Session 3 : Between semantics and grammar: structure statements at the levels of meaning and form

Session 4 : Modelling context

Session 5 : Relating grammar to meaning and context: examining cross-stratal and metafunctional relations

Session 6 : Major systems of grammar, meaning and context: the arguments for a register (functional variety of text)

Session 7 : Theories of discourse analysis

Session 8 : Multimodality

Session 9 : Multimodality

For more details on each session, click here. (PDF 150KB)

Language description (co-ordinators: Prof. Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen & Dr. Kazuhiro Teruya ): angles of approach in developing a description of a language (extending an existing description or starting a new one), generalizing from the analysis of natural text, probing systems through "elicitation", (re)-interpreting existing descriptions, using existing descriptions as models, using "transfer comparison", drawing on typological generalizations to guide the development of the description.

Recommended reading:

Matthiessen,   M. I. M. Christian (2004). Descriptive motifs and generalizations. In Language Typology: a functional perspective. A. Caffarel, J. R. Martin & C.M.I.M. Matthiessen. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: 537-673.

Teruya, Kazuhiro (2004). Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Japanese. In Language Typology: a functional perspective. A. Caffarel, J. R. Martin & C.M.I.M. Matthiessen. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: 185-254.

Afternoon courses

Computational resources and tools in discourse analysis and language description (co-ordinator: Dr. Wu Canzhong): collecting texts for analysis, developing text archives and corpora, investigating these resources through automated analysis and computationally supported manual analysis, summarizing and visualizing the results of the analysis.

Session 1 : Introduction

Session 2 : Text collection and archiving (TextArchive)

Session 3 : Text analysis and analysis visualization (SysFan)

Session 4 : Corpus and concordance (SysConc)

Session 5 : Text analysis (Coder)

Session 6 : RST (RSTTool)

Intonation analysis (co-ordinators : Prof. William S. Greaves & Dr. Meena Debashish ): working with spoken discourse, learning to recognize prosodic patterns of rhythm and intonation, carrying out intonation analysis, relating the analysis to grammar and semantics.

Session 1 : Introduction (working with Praat and Mick O’Donnell’s Coder)

Session 2 : Rhythm and Intonation

Session 3 : Intonation analysis using Praat

Session 4 : Lexicogrammar: Coding for Mood

Session 5 : Semantic: Coding for Move

Session 6 : Multistratal analysis of discourse

 

Complete Daily Outline

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