39th International Systemic Functional Congress
16th – 20th July 2012 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
'to boldly go... '
The 39th International Systemic Functional Congress will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney, from 16th to 20th July 2012. The conference theme 'to boldly go...' encompasses expanding fields of enquiry, modalities, typologies, and voices in evolving theory in systemic functional linguistics and social semiotics. The main themes of the conference are Language and knowledge – Context and Variation – Learning Language - Language in Education - Typology and Translation - Multimodality, and presentations on other topics are also welcome.
The conference will be preceded by the Pre-conference Institute on 9th - 13th July 2012, at the University of Sydney
New to ISFC39: the option of presenting a poster session, and the chance to get your paper published in the refereed conference proceedings.
You can find more news on the conference at the conference blog.
Puzzled by our theme? "to boldly go..." makes reference to the opening lines of the popular TV science fiction series, Star Trek, in which a group of intrepid explorers conducted a 5 year mission to uncover new life in previously uncharted areas of the universe. Even the grammar of this line was considered to break conventions ...
