This symposium is hosted and funded by Macquarie University.
SPEAKERS
Professor Ruqaiya Hasan has written widely on the context-construing power of language. Volume 4 of her Collected Papers, currently in press, is on context in the systemic functional linguistic approach to language. She is Emeritus Professor, Linguistics, Macquarie University.
Professor Christian Matthiessen is Chair and Head of the Department of English, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Matthiessen's many research interests include systemic functional theory and metatheory, systems theory and modelling, multilingualism, systemic typology, text-based systemic functional typology, language evolution, and language, brain and mind relations. He is well known for his SF description of English grammar, in Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995, Tokyo, International Language Sciences Publishers), and with MAK Halliday in An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd Edition; 2004, Arnold).
Associate Professor Rosemary Huisman, University of Sydney. A/Prof Huisman has specialised in the study of literature drawing on the disciplines of linguistics, stylistics, semiotics, sociology and physics. She is the author of The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English.
Associate Professor David Butt, Centre for Language in Social Life, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Drawing on Hasan, A/Prof Butt has developed networks for the description of the contextual parameters field, tenor and mode.
Professor Trevor Johnston, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Professor Johnson specialises in the study of sign language. He coined the term Auslan, and has made a significant contribution to its recognition as a community language, and to its linguistic description. He has developed a dictionary for Auslan (see e.g. http://www.auslan.org.au) and a digital archive of Auslan text which is hosted at the Endangered Languages Corpus, at SOAS (http://elar.soas.ac.uk/).
Dr John Knox is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Dr Knox is an early career researcher, with a particular interest is systemic functional linguistics and multimodal discourse. His PhD research focused on the analysis of online newspapers. His research interests include language in education, SFL and multimodal discourse, and media discourse
Dr Rebekah Wegener is Program Coordinator in Learning Skills, at Macquarie University. Dr Wegener is an early career researcher, completing her PhD, ';Parameters of context: from theory to model and application', with A/Prof David Butt and Dr Annabelle Lukin at Macquarie in 2011. Her research interests include multimodal research, human behaviour and movement modelling, context modelling, ambient intelligence, medical discourse and communication in medicine, and disability and ambient assisted living solutions for people living in aged care or with a disability.
Professor Christian Matthiessen is Chair and Head of the Department of English, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Matthiessen's many research interests include systemic functional theory and metatheory, systems theory and modelling, multilingualism, systemic typology, text-based systemic functional typology, language evolution, and language, brain and mind relations. He is well known for his SF description of English grammar, in Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995, Tokyo, International Language Sciences Publishers), and with MAK Halliday in An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd Edition; 2004, Arnold).
Associate Professor Rosemary Huisman, University of Sydney. A/Prof Huisman has specialised in the study of literature drawing on the disciplines of linguistics, stylistics, semiotics, sociology and physics. She is the author of The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English.
Associate Professor David Butt, Centre for Language in Social Life, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Drawing on Hasan, A/Prof Butt has developed networks for the description of the contextual parameters field, tenor and mode.
Professor Trevor Johnston, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Professor Johnson specialises in the study of sign language. He coined the term Auslan, and has made a significant contribution to its recognition as a community language, and to its linguistic description. He has developed a dictionary for Auslan (see e.g. http://www.auslan.org.au) and a digital archive of Auslan text which is hosted at the Endangered Languages Corpus, at SOAS (http://elar.soas.ac.uk/).
Dr John Knox is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Dr Knox is an early career researcher, with a particular interest is systemic functional linguistics and multimodal discourse. His PhD research focused on the analysis of online newspapers. His research interests include language in education, SFL and multimodal discourse, and media discourse
Dr Rebekah Wegener is Program Coordinator in Learning Skills, at Macquarie University. Dr Wegener is an early career researcher, completing her PhD, ';Parameters of context: from theory to model and application', with A/Prof David Butt and Dr Annabelle Lukin at Macquarie in 2011. Her research interests include multimodal research, human behaviour and movement modelling, context modelling, ambient intelligence, medical discourse and communication in medicine, and disability and ambient assisted living solutions for people living in aged care or with a disability.