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April 2015
ASFLA 2015
is coming!
ASFLA
In this issue
Upcoming events
Halliday symposium
a celebration in his 90th year
On Tuesday February 17, 2015, the Systemic Functional
Linguistics community gathered to honour the renowned
linguist, Michael Halliday and to celebrate Michaels 90th
birthday. The event, hosted by the Department of
Linguistics at the University of Sydney, attracted 140
students and colleagues.
Speakers and honoured guests: Christian Matthiesen, Geoff Williams, Frances Christie, Ruqaiya Hasan,
Michael Halliday, Jim Martin, Clare Painter and David Butt
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The appraisal Symposium, organised by Peter White and Lexie Don, was held at the University of New South Wales on
February 18 19, 2015 and offered the opportunity to engage with evaluative meaning-making from a variety of different
perspectives. The organisers of the symposium provided an environment which encouraged participants to share ideas, ask
questions and further interrogate the model.
A wide range of approaches to evaluative meaning making was
evident in the presentations. The opportunity to hear Professor Susan
Hunston present an outsiders view into appraisal was particularly
valuable, as was the opportunity to hear about the use of appraisal in
contexts as varied as analysis of video games, other languages
(Vietnamese, Chinese), school discourse, academic discourse,
multimodal contexts (typography, blogs, online news, television,
clothing), verbal communication and sports analytics. Dialogue
amongst participants was encouraged during a forum / panel
discussion on the afternoon of the first day of the Symposium and
continued through lunch and tea breaks on the second day. It was a
valuable opportunity to meet with colleagues, debate the model and its
application to multiple contexts, and push against the boundaries of
current understandings of how evaluative meanings are made and
described.
Thanks to Erika Matruglio for this report
EVENTS
FOR THE DIARY
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ASFLA
Pre conference institutes: September 28, 2015
Conference: September 29-October 1, 2015
University of Queensland, Brisbane
17 April, 2015
NEWS
Professor Hiep, Professor Halliday and Thu Ngo at the Halliday symposium
Prof. Hiep welcomes publications in SFL from Australian scholars and highly appreciates support
from the international SFL community in the development of SFL research in Vietnam.
Prof. Hiep said to SFL scholars at the Appraisal
symposium: "Vietnam needs your support. If you
give us an SFL seed, we will be responsible for
growing it in Vietnam until it fruits". Last year, in
2014, Prof. Len Unsworth, Dr. Thu Ngo and Dr.
Peter White were the pioneers who came to
Vietnam to sow the first seeds. This year, Prof.
James Martin and Assoc. Prof. Susan Hood have
generously agreed to come to Vietnam to present
SFL talks at the major Vietnam Linguistic
Conference titled '30 years of Vietnam linguistics
development and reform' to be held in August
2015. Prof. Hiep welcomes international
participants to come to Vietnam for this
conference. Details of this conference will be
announced shortly.
Thanks to Thu Ngo for story and photos
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