10TH EURO-INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL WORKSHOP
Interpersonal Meanings and Systems
Wednesday 22 - Saturday 25 July 1998
ABSTRACTS for the Workshop presentations are available - see below.
The Workshop, which was held at the University of Liverpool, included papers and workshops on all aspects of interpersonal
meanings and systems. We explored the issues in terms of lexico-grammatical
systems, their use in text and the socio-cultural contexts that they reflect
and construct, chiefly from a systemic functional perspective but also from
other perspectives.
The keynote speakers were
Margaret Berry: Interpersonal meanings and systems
Jim Martin: Communities of feeling: positive discourse analysis
The plenary speakers were
Florence Davies: The function of the interpersonal in written text
Michael Hoey: Problems with desire: where the interpersonal
and the ideational meet
Robin Fawcett: The interpersonal metafunction: is it? Issues of levels of
language, components and strands of meaning
The Workshop was as much international as Euro- this year, with participants from
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany,
Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, U.K., U.S.A.
and Zimbabwe.
To see the abstracts of all the papers, click here.
If you would like the contact address of any of the presenters for further details of
their paper, mail Geoff Thompson at the address below. You can also read Jim Martin's personal account
of the Workshop lifted from sysfling by clicking here.
Address for correspondence:
- E-ISFW10
- Applied English Language Studies Unit
- Department of English Language and Literature
- University of Liverpool
- Liverpool L69 3BX
- UK
email: geoff9@liverpool.ac.uk
fax: +44 151 794 2739
tel: +44 151 794 2770