The 47th International Systemic Functional Congress, hosted online by Shenzhen University, starts on Monday 25 July, 2022. The ISFC 47 conference programme is now available online, with information about free open access — full of great contributions: isfc2022.cn/?id=160

The ISFC 47 organisers have now sent a message indicating a different way for non-speakers to attend talks. They write: the following link to connect a live streaming platform:  v.feiyao.tv/live/mk/aggspr… Please help disseminate this information. :)

ISFC 47 is still progressing energetically! And we can look forward to an amazing International Systemic Functional Congress in Tunisia next year, hosted by syflat and Sfax University in a beautiful location: syflat.tn/isfc2023/

Comics and the study of comics by a meta-comics character: the permeability of the two orders. Photo by ⁦Kaela Zhang⁩

A valuable new contribution to the overview of systemic functional translation studies by Shukun Chen, Winfred Wenhui Xuan & Hailing Yu, “Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics in translation studies: A research synthesis.”: jbe-platform.com/content/journa… Congrats to the authors!

Fascinating new book by Rosemary Huisman informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL), forthcoming with RoutledgeLinguistics: Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time A Social-Semiotic Perspective routledge.com/Narrative-Worl…

48th International Systemic Functional Congress #ISFC48 #ISFC2023 & 2nd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference #TSFLC2 Submission deadline: 19/11/2022 Notification of acceptance: 5/12/2022 Pre-Congress Institute: 16-17/03/2023 Congress: 18-21/03/2023 #Tunisia #SFG

Happy (unusually early) Mid-Autumn Festival! With a phuzzy foto! ;)

EMI Research Generates Social Impacts in Healthcare and Secondary Education scmp.com/presented/news…

Extreme rightwing nationalism — what’s the best analogy? A semiotically communicable disease based on malicious memes and toxic tropes. Infecting disillusioned voters in many place, and now Sweden: 20% to a party completely at odds with the admired values.

Excellent news: a great addition to the SF description of Chinese — Jing Fang’s book “A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese Nominal Groups A Text-Based Approach”. Full of insights, e.g. metafunctional illumination of the group. Warm thanks & congrats! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Intellectual treat at Complutense University: I Seminario Internacional de Postgrado en Traducción/ I International Seminar on Translation Studies (4-25 de octubre y 7-10 de noviembre de 2022) ucm.es/iulmyt/seminar…

Language, Context and Text 4:2 is now available from Benjamin's Publishing House "1776", with five great articles, including one by Jorge Arús-Hita Jorge Arús Hita on Theme in English and Spanish and one by Mohamed Ali Bardi on sayerhood in Arabic — highly recommended! 👍

My article on social media campaigns for The Conversation Africa based on my paper 'Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Ghanaian Twitter' (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…). Godfred Akoto Boafo nana aba Michael Oti Adjei Serwaa Amihere Gary Al-Smith Nathan Quao theconversation.com/social-media-c…

Thanks to Wang Bo & Ma Yuanyi, we now have access in English to the important 4-volume Modern Chinese grammar by legendary Wang Li, one of Halliday’s two mentors in China through Routledge Books. Congratulations on this pioneering fan-tastic contribution!!!

Next week (23-25 November 2022) will be very important and exciting for Systemic Functional Linguistics: the 17th ALSFAL Conference (online), organized by a wonderful scholarly team: sites.google.com/humanas.unlpam…

Join us online on 15th February 12.00 pm GMT to hear about the 'Questioning Vaccination Discourse' project. Link below.

Systemic Functional Linguistics conference in early February — an important new initiative, the 1st ISFLC Jeddah conference: jisflc.uj.edu.sa

The Department of Modern Languages at UG began its 60th Anniversary celebrations with a vibrant launch themed 'Celebrating 60 years of Global Engagement: Language Exploration and Cultural Understanding.' 1/2 #UGIS75 #IntegriProcedamus

We are very sad to share this note from John Heritage on the death of Emanuel Schegloff: “It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Manny Schegloff has died. He was an intellectual giant and a dear colleague who leaves an extraordinary legacy of scholarship.”