50th SFL Congress Glasgow July 7th to 11th 2025

Morning all,

 

I am delighted to announce that the 50th International Systemic Functional Congress will be held at the University of Glasgow from the 7th to the 11th of July 2025.

 

The first call for papers will be issued in September.  

 

There will be a Pre-Congress Institute with six different workshops on the 5th and 6th of July.

 

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 during the 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

Please feel free to circulate this announcement.

 

All the best and see you in Glasgow!

 

Tom. 

 

Professor Tom Bartlett

Professor of Functional and Applied Linguistics

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