First CfP 50th SFL Congress Glasgow July 2025

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:

 

1. Developments in SFL Theory and Description
2. Case Studies of Individual Languages
3. Emerging Areas for SFL Transdisciplinary Research
4. Discourse Analysis
5. AI and computer-generated language
6. Translation Studies
7. Ecolinguistics
8. Healthcare Communication
9. Clinical Linguistics
10. Language Education
11. Linguistic Studies of Literary Texts
12. Legal Language and Forensic Linguistics
13. Multimodality/Multisemiosis
14. Corpus Research
15. Comparative text analysis
16. 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