First Call for Papers
50th International Systemic Functional Congress and Institute (ISFC 2025)
This is the first call for papers for the 50th International Systemic Functional Congress to be held at the University of Glasgow from 7th to 11th July 2025.
There will be a Pre-Congress Institute with six different workshops on 5th and 6th July 2025.
Key dates for proposals:
Submission start date: 1st November 2025
Submission deadline: 31st January 2025
Notification by: 15th March 2025
The theme of the plenary talks is ISFC@50: A Trinocular Retrospective and we have a star-studded list of plenary speakers:
Christian Matthiessen (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Jim Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
Anne McCabe (University of Saint Louis in Madrid, Spain)
Akila Sellami-Baklouti (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Dongbing Zhang (University of International Business and Economics, China)
Gerard O'Grady (Cardiff University, Wales)
Teresa Oteíza (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Yaegan Doran (Australian Catholic University)
The following workshops will be offered at the Pre-Congress Institute:
Lise Fontaine (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) - Clause Structure, the Nominal Group and Referring Expressions)
Gerard O'Grady - Using PRAAT
Izis Elorza (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) - Multimodal Analysis
Teresa Oteíza - APPRAISAL in English and beyond
Mick O'Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) - Using CorpusTool
Tom Bartlett (University of Glasgow) - Transitivity, Mood an Modality
The organizing committee welcomes any paper with a substantial SFL angle. All papers will be delivered on site.
Relevant areas include but are not confined to the following topics:
- Developments in SFL Theory and Description
- Case Studies of Individual Languages
- Emerging Areas for SFL Transdisciplinary Research
- Discourse Analysis
- AI and computer-generated language
- Translation Studies
- Ecolinguistics
- Healthcare Communication
- Clinical Linguistics
- Language Education
- Linguistic Studies of Literary Texts
- Legal Language and Forensic Linguistics
- Multimodality/Multisemiosis
- Corpus Research
- Comparative text analysis
- Advances in Digitally-Based Research Methodologies
We welcome panels on specific sub-topics. Each panel should have between four and eight presenters, including the convenor.
Congress fees:
Full fee: £360
Full fee (early bird): £290
Student fee: £240
Student fee (early bird): £200
Institute fees:
Full fee: £150
Early bird: £120
For further information, please see the official conference website (available soon).
You can contact us via the Congress e-mail: ISFC50@glasgow.ac.uk
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We are very much looking forward to receiving your proposals!
All the best,
Tom Bartlett, University of Glasgow
Angela Gayton, University of Glasgow
Piotr Wegorowski, University of Glasgow
James Balfour, University of Glasgow