Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the 2020 International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC 47) will be held at the University of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China, from July 8–10 (Pre-Congress Institute) to July 13–17 (Congress), 2020.
继北京大学（1995），清华大学（2009）和中山大学（2013）后，ISFC第47届年会（2020）主办权第四次花落中国，将由学院承办，这在新的历史节点上具有重大的现实意义。
The theme of the Congress
SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND PRAXIS:
Sustaining dialogue between theory and practice
Co-convenors
(Alex) Xuanwei Peng | University of Shenzhen
Geoff Williams | University of Shenzhen & University of Sydney
This congress will be an opportunity to re-examine praxis in SFL as it continues to expand globally, and into new domains of activity. Praxis has been a key concept throughout the development of SFL. Halliday, in reflecting on the Marxist origins of SFL in his contribution to The Bloomsbury Companion to M.A.K. Halliday (ed. J. Webster, 2015: 97), commented:
… I have always thought of linguistic theory as something to be applied, to real problems either in research or in some domain of practice; eventually I came up with the term 'appliable' linguistics to encapsulate this preoccupation with a theory as a mode of action that is based on understanding. It is of course not specifically Marxist, except perhaps in the notion that there are cycles of mutual reinforcement between practice and theory: theory improves the effectiveness of practice, and practice contributes to the ongoing refinement of theory.
The organizing committee will particularly welcome papers which address the interface between SFL theory and research/practice, oriented from either starting point, or which report advances in the 'appliability' of SFL using new theoretical developments.
The following are the major sub-topics, but papers with other foci will also be considered.
1. Developments in SFL Theory and Description
2. Case Studies of Individual Languages
3. Emerging Areas for SFL Transdisciplinary Research
4. Grammatical Metaphor and Discourse Strategies
5. Translation Studies
6. Ecolinguistics
7. Healthcare Communication
8. Clinical Linguistics
9. Language Education
10. Disciplinary English
11. Linguistic Studies of Literary Texts
12. Legal Registers
13. Multimodality/Multisemiosis
14. Corpus Research
15. Comparison of Contemporary Online Texts in Different Languages
16. Advances in Digitally-Based Research Methodologies
We welcome panels focused on a sub-topic. Each panel should have about 5 presenters, with one presenter as the convenor.
Submission start date: 15 November, 2019
Submission deadline: 15 January, 2020
Notification by: 15 March, 2020
Getting to Shenzhen
Shenzhen International Airport
Hong Kong International Airport (or Chek Lap Kok Airport)
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
For further information, please see the official conference website (coming soon). Congress e-mail: isfc2020contacto@163.com.
For further information, please see the official conference website (coming soon). Congress e-mail: isfc2020contacto@163.com.
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We are very much looking forward to receiving your proposals!
All best,
(Alex) Xuanwei Peng
Geoff Williams
