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International Conference on Appliable Linguistics and Academic Discourse
We are pleased to announce that the Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has scheduled to hold the International Conference on Appliable Linguistics and Academic Discourse from 8 to 12 December, 2014.
The conference will comprise five days of intensive seminars and workshops, led by some of the leading functional linguists in the world (Yaegan Doran, Susan Hood, Talia Gill, James R Martin, Teresa Oteiza and David Rose), and by Karl Maton, the creator of Legitimation Code Theory – including interviews/panel discussions featuring these theorists. This group of internationally-renowned scholars have been collaborating in Sydney, Latin America and South Africa over the past decade to create many of the newest cutting-edge ideas in both educational linguistics and the sociology of education. This year’s conference brings a comprehensive introduction to this highly significant and innovative work on the construal and reconstrual of knowledge in academic discourse to China for the first time.
We sincerely invite you to attend this conference. Please send the following information via email message (no attachment needed) to wangpin@sjtu.edu.cn.
Title + Full name
Date of birth
Passport No.
Affiliation
Address
Entry/exit dates
Upon receiving your email we will provide you with an official letter of invitation. Travel, accommodation and meals are to be arranged by yourselves.
Date: 8-12 December, 2014
Venue: School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Location: 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Registration fee: RMB￥1,500; RMB￥700 for students (to be paid in cash upon registration)
Fee for conference dinner: RMB￥180
Contact:
Prof. Wang Zhenhua wzhenhua@sjtu.edu.cn (+86)13585718587
Dr. Wang Pin wangpin@sjtu.edu.cn (+86)15121004695
Prof. Wang Zhenhua, Convenor
Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics
School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Schedule
8/12/2014 Monday
8:30-10:00 |
J R Martin |
Systemic Functional Linguistic foundations |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Karl Maton |
Legitimation Code Theory foundations |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Sydney School pedagogy |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Sue Hood |
Academic discourse: disciplinary differences |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
|
17:15-18:15 |
Centre welcome/international launch |
|
9/12/2014 Tuesday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Specialisation |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
|
10:30-12:00 |
Sue Hood |
Story genres in academic discourse |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Knowledge genres and curriculum genres |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Yaegan Doran |
Mathematics genres |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
|
17:15-18:15 |
Interview: David Rose/J R Martin |
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10/12/2014 Wednesday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Semantic density |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
J R Martin |
SFL: revisiting field |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
Yaegan Doran |
Mathematics grammar |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
David Rose |
Reading to Learn and academic discourse |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
|
17:15-18:15 |
Interview: Karl Maton/Sue Hood |
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11/12/2014 Thursday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Semantic gravity |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
|
10:30-12:00 |
J R Martin |
SFL: revisiting mode |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
Sue Hood |
Paralanguage in lecturing |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Talia Gill |
Semantic density, semantic gravity in images |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
|
17:15-18:15 |
Play performance: Reading Mandela – genre pedagogy versus ancient rhetoric |
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12/12/2014 Friday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT cosmology: epistemological/axiological |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Sue Hood |
Appraisal in academic discourse |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Regulative 'gaze'/instructional 'gaze' & pedagogy |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Talia Gill |
Intermodality in animated imaging |
17:15 |
Conference dinner |
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