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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
October 16 - 18, 1997
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Macau
in conjunction with
Tsinghua University, China
Conference program
Dear Participant,
We would like to thank you for your support and for your
contribution in participating in the conference. We hope that you
will find the program of the conference useful for your future
work.
In this folder, you will find
1. Practical information about the campus and the city.
2. Charts representing the program.
3. Abstracts of papers to be delivered.
4. Contact addresses of participants.
We look forward to meeting you.
The Organizing Committee
Fang Yan, Tsinghua University
Guo Yi Qin, University of Macau
Hu Zhuanglin, Peking University
Ren Shaozeng, University of Macau
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OCTOBER 16 - 18
Thursday, October 16
- 9:00 - 9:45 Opening ceremony
- 9:45 - 12:50 Plenary
- 9:45 - 10:45 Ruquaia Hasan, ‘Context in Language as
System and as Process’
- 10:45 - 11:00 Photo-taking
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:10 Hu Zhuanglin, ‘Discourse Analysis and
Pragmatics’
- 12:10 - 12:50 Ren Shaozeng, ‘Linguistic Features and
Discourse Semantics’
- 12:50 - 2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00 - 6:00 Paper sessions: see daily schedule of papers
- (4:20 - 4:50 Coffee break)
Friday, October 17
- 9:00 - 1:00 Plenary
- 9:00 - 10:00 M. A. K. Halliday, ‘Towards a Closer
Relationship between the Study of Grammar and the Study
of Discourse’
- 10:00 - 11:00 Peter Fries, ‘On the Constructive
Nature of Language’
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:15 Douglas Kerr, ‘A Case of Colonial
Discourse Analysis: Leonard Woolf and I’
- 12:15 - 1:00 John Flowerdew, ‘The Discourse of
Colonial Withdrawal: a Case Study in the Creation of
Mythic Discourse’
- 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00 - 6:00 Paper sessions: see daily schedule of papers
- (4:20 - 4:50 Coffee break)
Saturday, October 18
- 9:00 -12:15 Plenary
- 9:00 - 10:00 Cheng Yumin, ‘Morpheme-based Syntax of
Chinese’
- 10:00 - 11:00 Christian Mettheissen
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:15 Jonathan Webster, ‘Functional Semantic
Processing of Chinese and English Texts’
- 12:15 - 1:00 Closing ceremony
- 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00 - 6:00 Macau city tour
THURSDAY 16 October 1997
- Ruquaia Hasan, ‘Context in Language as System and as
Process’ Photo-taking
- Hu Zhuanglin, ‘Discourse Analysis and
Pragmatics’
- Ren Shaozeng, ‘Linguistic Features and Discourse
Semantics’
VENUE 1, Senate Room, T 303 VENUE 2, Conference Room,
L 105 VENUE 3, L 308
- Shen Jiaxuan (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).
‘Grammatical Metonymy: Transferred Reference of
‘De’ Construction in Mandarin’ (Zhu)
- Zhu Yongsheng (Fudan University). ‘The Chinese Third
Personal Pronoun Singular: a Socialinguistic
Interpretation’ (Shen)
- Xu Jiujiu & Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong
Kong). ‘Type Analysis of Noun-Anaphora in Chinese
Narratives’ (Zhu)
- Jonathan Webster & Zhu Jinqian (City University of
Hong Kong). ‘Semantic Properties of Thematic Noun
Phrases in Chinese’ (Zhu)
- Gu Yueguo (Beijing Foreign Studies University).
‘Liability and Power in Traffic Accident Mediation
Discourse’ (Chen)
- Lynne Flowerdew (Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology). ‘An Error Analysis of Pragmatic Failure
in a Learner Corpus’ (Gu)
- Chen Zhi’an & Liu Chengyu (Southwest-China
Normal University). ‘Relativity of Markedness of
Codeswitching’ (Gu)
- Minako Nakayasu (Kagoshima Women’s College).
‘Tense in the Complement Clause: A Pragmatic
Account’ (Barns)
- Fang Yan (Tsinghua University). ‘Do They Construct
the Same Reality?’ (Zhu)
- Zhu Shichang (East China University of Science &
Technology). ‘A Functional Perspective Toward the
Conversational Analysis’ (Fang)
- Peng Xuanwei (Chongqing University). ‘Text as
Exchange — Interpersonal Functions of Text and Their
Relations’ (Zhu)
- Zhang Yuan (Frontier Defence Department of the
People’s Armed Police Academy). ‘A Discussion
on Ellipsis’ (Zhu)
- Yang Xinzhang (Xiamen University). ‘Discourse
Structures and the Linguistic Realization in English and
Chinese’ (Zhu)
- Dick Tibbetts (University of Macau). ‘Language as
Display and its Effect on Learning to Mean’ (Barns)
- Gu Minghua (Hangzhou University). ‘Global
Implicature of the Text’ (Chen)
- Teng Su Ching (National University of Singapore).
‘Quality of Texts: Can theme Tell?’ (Guthrie)
- Maria Trigoso (University of Macau). ‘The
Three Literary Cities of Macau Literature (One
Urban-Context Three Literary City-Texts)’ (Guthrie)
FRIDAY 17 October 1997
- M. A. K. Halliday, ‘Towards a Closer Relationship
Between the Study of Grammar and the Study of
Discourse’
- Peter Fries, ‘On the Constructive Nature of
Language’
- Douglas Kerr, ‘A Case of Colonial Discourse
Analysis: Leonard Woolf and I’
- John Flowerdew, ‘The Discourse of Colonial
Withdrawal: a Case Study in the Creation of Mythic
Discourse’
VENUE 1, Senate Room, T 303 VENUE 2, Conference
Room, L 105 VENUE 3, L 308
- Zhou Zhongjie (Shanghai Teachers’ University).
‘From Sentence Grammar to Discourse Grammar’
(Zhu)
- Lu Zhongshe (Tsinghua University). ‘Social Changes
Seen Through Language’ (Zhou)
- Liu Daqing & Xu Liejiong (City University of Hong
Kong). ‘Natural Focus, Contrastive Focus and Topic
Focus’ (Zhou)
- Ken Hyland (City University of Hong Kong). ‘Talking
to Readers: Metadiscourse in Academic Research
Articles’ (Zhou)
- Zhou Guangya (Sichuan Union University). ‘Cohesion
and Coherence in Discourse Structure’ (Liu)
- Liu Shisheng (Shandong Teachers’ University).
‘A Functional Approach to Cohesion — With
Particular Reference to Ellipsis’ (Zhou)
- Zhang Shaojie (Northeast Normal University). ‘On the
Property of Conversation’ (Zhou)
- Li Zhanzi (Beijing University). ‘On the
Coherence-Building Functions of “I Remember”
Expressions in Autobiographies’ (Zhou)
- Cheng Qilong (Shantou University). ‘Text as an
Organization of Signs’ (Huang)
- Huang Guowen (Zhongshan University). ‘The Discourse
Structure of the Written “Letter to Agony Aunt:
Reply to Letter” Schema’ (Zhang)
- Zhang Delu (Liaocheng Teachers’ University).
‘From Clause to Text: the Multi-Level Structures of
Text and its Coherence’ (Huang)
- Guo Yiqin (University of Macau). ‘Three Levels in
the Structure of The Good Earth’ (Fang)
- Jian Hong (Ningbo University). ‘Teaching Cohesion
and Coherence through the Analysis of Students’
Errors’ (Zhou)
- Ding Jianmin (Hangzhou University). ‘The
Interactional Use of Language and the Teaching of
Business Writing in EFL Programs’ (Cheng)
- Pamela Leung (Hong Kong Institute of Education).
‘Metaphors in Chinese Children Stories’ (Cheng)
- Pauline Lee & Francis Yau (City University of Hong
Kong). ‘Discourse Comprehension Strategies Commonly
Used by Chinese Majors in Reading and Writing English at
the Tertiary Level’ (Cheng)
SATURDAY 18 October 1997
- Cheng Yumin, ‘Morpheme Based Syntax of Chinese’
- Christian Mettheissen
- Jonathan Webster, ‘Functional Semantic Processing of
Chinese and English Texts’
Conference Report
International and Fifth National Conference
on Discourse Analysis Held in the University
of Macau
Fang Yan
Tsinghua University
The International and the Fifth National Conference on
Discourse Analysis was successfully held at the University of
Macau from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18.
This conference was jointly sponsored by the University of
Macau and Tsinghua University. Rector Prof. Zhouligao,
representing the University of Macau, and Prof. Cheng Mucheng, on
behalf of Tsinghua University, made speeches at the opening
ceremony to warmly welcome all the participants present at the
conference. Prof. Cheng also extended her sincere gratitude to
the leaders and staff, especially the teachers in the Faculty of
Social sciences and Humanities of the University of Macau, for
their efforts put into making this conference a great success.
At this conference, over 50 participants presenting 45 papers
represented scholars of 25 institutions from Australia, America,
Singapore, Japan, Macau, Hong Kong and mainland China. What was
particularly impressive is that most of the papers were of high
quality and that the participants had real cross cultural
communications in a friendly, cordial and harmonious atmosphere.
Present at the conference were several renowned linguists and
experts in discourse studies, both international and domestic.
Professor Halliday, the founder of the Systemic-Functional
linguistics school, and Systemists Hasan, P.Fries and C.
Mattiessen were among the key-note speakers. The presence of
Prof. Halliday and Prof. Hasan and other distinguished linguists
had indeed a great significance in enhancing the importance and
the status of this conference. The chairman and the vice-chairmen
of China Functional Linguistics Association Profs. Hu Zhuanglin,
Zhu Yongsheng, Ren Shaozeng and Fang Yan all attended the
conference, who, together with Prof. Cheng Yumin from Fudan
University and Prof. Shen Jiaxuan from the Linguistics Institute
of the Social Sciences Academy represent the mainstream and
forefront in the study of discourses. From the many papers
presented which were modeled on SFL, one can see that the SFL
school is gaining momentum internationally and becoming very
influential in China.
Papers given at the panel sessions include
- Towards a Closer Relationship between the Study of
Grammar and the Study of discourse (Halliday),
- Context in Language as System and as Process (Hasan),
- Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (Hu Zhuanglin),
- Linguistic Features and discourse Semantics (Ren
Shaozeng),
- On the Constructive Nature of Language (P.Fries), A Case
of Colonial Discourse:Leonard Woolf and I (D. Kerr),
- The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal: a Case Study in the
Creation of Mythic Discourse (J. Flowerdew),
- Morpheme-based Syntax of Chinese (Cheng Yumin),
- Computational Linguistics and Generation of Texts (C.
Matthissen), and
- Functional Semantic Processing of Chinese and English
Texts (J. Webster).
The present writer also presented a paper at a strand session
comparing the speeches made by Chinese President Jiang Zemin and
Prince Charles at the handover ceremony of Hong Kong to China,
which was an application of SFL to discourse analysis. From the
fruitful exchanges, the representatives were enlightened with new
ideas on the orientation for their future work on discourse
analysis, and on the areas which require more work.
The successful convention of the conference was the result of
the support and hospitality of the leaders of Macau University
and the joint efforts made by the members of the organizing
committee representing the two universities, especially the hard
work of Prof. Ren Shaozeng and Madam Guo Yiqin and their
colleagues at Macau University. Without their support and hard
work, the convening of this conference would have been
impossible.
The Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University is
honored to have been the co-sponsor of this successful
conference, which is indeed a very good example of international
cooperation. We look forward to meeting our colleagues at the
next conference to be held in some institution in Shangdong
Province in the year of 2000, which is followed by the 6th
National Systemic-Functional Linguistics Conference sponsored by
Fudan University in Shanghai in 1999.
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