Dear all,
A reminder that any submissions for ISFC50 in Glasgow that are received by Friday 31st January (which will mean Monday morning, in practice) will be reviewed immediately to allow for presenters to secure funding and arrange travel and any visas. Notifications for early abstract submissions will be sent by 14th February.
The final submission deadline is 21st February, with notifications by 29th March.
The submission portal is: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76932/submitter
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All enquiries to isfc50@glasgow.ac.uk
50th International Systemic Functional Congress, ISFC50
The University of Glasgow is thrilled to hold the 50th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC) in 2025. ISFC is an international academic conference dedicated to the exploration and development of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
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50th International Systemic Functional Congress and Institute (ISFC 2025)
The 50th International Systemic Functional Congress will 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.
Proposals are invited for individual oral presentations, poster presentations and colloquia (panels).
Colloquia can be 1.5 hours, 3 hours or 4.5 hours and proposals will be accepted or rejected in full (not per individual paper). See submission instructions in the portal.
There is no theme for presentations, but there is a list of indicative topic areas.
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 presented on site.
Relevant areas include but are not confined to the following topics:
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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
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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 colloquia on specific sub-topics. Each colloquium 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
You can contact us via the Congress e-mail: ISFC50@glasgow.ac.uk
Feel free to forward and distribute this message widely.
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
Professor Tom Bartlett
Professor of Functional and Applied Linguistics
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University of Glasgow
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