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Aims & Themes
Systemic functional linguistics is a metalanguage adapted to account for language in its environment. It is a toolkit that has continued to evolve in interaction with new contexts and to engage bravely with the questions that emerge as a result. The 2011 conference at UNE, Language, knowledge & justice: New contexts, new questions, will provide an opportunity to explore questions and issues emerging from work at the interface, often the margins, of the social, the semiotic and the ethical.
The three strands of our conference theme pick up on this interest in the relationship between language and other kinds of work: language and other semiotic systems, knowledge and new work within the sociology of education, justice and work towards more ethical restorative systems.
The three themes of our conference highlight the importance of thinking about knowledge, language and justice in new contexts. While the three can be looked at individually they are obviously interwoven in social practice.
Papers and workshops that explore questions emerging from these new contexts are welcome.
Language
The tools of SFL are being expanded and adapted to account for application to new ecosocial environments. These include the development of SFG for LOTE, computer generated languages, clinical settings and new educational contexts.
Knowledge
This theme draws on research into knowledge structures in sociology and education as inspired by the work of Basil Bernstein and Karl Maton amongst others. The theme acknowledges recent work on the transformation of knowledge through digital technologies.
Justice
Michael Halliday sees linguistics as a committed form of social action. Matters of social justice are at the heart of SFL. In this theme, we recognise important new work in youth justice conferencing, legal processes and research addressing inequities in education.
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