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35th International Systemic Functional Congress |
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Theme
The theme of the 35th ISFC 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.
Contributions: papers, workshops and colloquia
Submissions of proposals for three forms of contribution are invited for consideration — papers, workshops and colloquia:
| Paper | Workshop | Colloquium | |
| Deadline [extended] | 31 March, 2008 | 31 March, 2008 | 31 March, 2008 |
| Length | 40 minutes: 30 for presentation + 10 for discussion | 3 hours 30 minutes | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Focus | Succinct report on research or exploration of issues by individual or team | Analysis, description, modelling or methodology in joint exploratory mode or tutorial mode | Development of Resource Network or Research Network |
| Proposal | Abstract of around 200 words by presenter(s) | Abstract of around 400 words by workshop convenor(s) | General abstract of around 200 words by convenor(s) of colloquium plus specific abstracts of around 200 words each by individual presenters |
Submission
Electronic submissions should be sent to isfc2008@ling.mq.edu.au ONLY and they should contain the following information:| Title | Title of proposed contribution |
| Presenters | Names of presenters and institutional affiliation and address, including email address; specification of convenor(s) in the case of workshops and colloquia — and upon acceptance of abstract, also photograph |
| Timetable | For workshops and colloquia, the time table of activities or presentations within the 3:30 hour slot |
| Presentational requirements | Data projector, overhead projector, whiteboard, special AV equipment |
| Presentation: Aim | Succinct statement of the aim of the contribution |
| Presentation: Background | Relationship to previous and current work within systemic functional linguistics, with key references |
| Presentation: Body | Description of the main part of the presentation |
| Presentation: References | List of references cited in the abstract |
| Presentation: Key terms | Key terms identifying the field(s) of presentation |
All submissions of papers, workshops and colloquia will be refereed.
Only electronic submissions sent to isfc2008@ling.mq.edu.au will be considered.