23rd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop (ESFLCW 2012)

Hosted by:

Center for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC)
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna, Italy

With the support of:

Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna

With the endorsement of:

Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

CONFERENCE THEME:

Permeable contexts and hybrid discourses

The Theme is meant to address the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: ‘hybridity’. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational contexts that tend to activate meanings and wordings must also be seen as being ‘hybrid’, or as Hasan (2000) has more fittingly put it, ‘permeable’: “It is not simply that predetermined qualities of genres are being mixed, combined, hybridized: the fact of the matter is that by these devices people extend, elaborate and reclassify their discursive contexts. Derrida’s celebrated claim that one cannot not mix genres should really be rephrased as contexts of life cannot but be permeable; the rest follows by the dialectic of language and discursive situation”.

Definitive Programme ESFLCW2012

Portable Document Format

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Caroline Coffin (Open University) – Abstract 
Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff University) – Abstract
Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool) – Abstract

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Donna R. Miller (Chair), Paul Bayley, Cinzia Bevitori, Jane H. Johnson, Enrico Monti (webmaster)

David Banks (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
John Bateman (Universität Breman, Germany);
Sheena Gardner (Coventry University, UK)
Carlos A. M. Gouveia (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Robin Fawcett (Cardiff University, UK)
Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University, UK)
Martin Kaltenbacher (Universität Salzburg, Austria)
Anne McCabe (St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain)
Stella Neumann (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Mick O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Christopher Taylor (SSLIMIT, Trieste, Italy)
Carol Taylor Torsello (Università di Padova, Italy)
Sonja Starc (Univerza na Primorskem, Koper, Slovenia)
Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Elizabeth Swain (Università di Trieste, Italy)
Eija Ventola (Aalto-yliopisto, Finland)