Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
12-16 December 2015

It is now a little over a decade since the publication of Caffarel et al.'s Language Typology: a functional perspective – a book which drew together papers based on workshops and seminars focusing on the description of languages other than English from an SFL perspective. Since that time, SFL work on languages from different language families has expanded considerably. This year's forum is dedicated to encouraging these developments, with special reference to inspiring the role scholars in Chinese universities might play by working on Chinese, minority languages in China and regional languages.

The forum will consist of five days of intensive seminars and paper presentations, led by several ground-breaking functional linguists from around the world (Nick Enfield, Giacomo Figueredo, Randy LaPolla, J R Martin, Christian Matthiessen, Edward McDonald, Beatriz Quiroz, Miriam Taverniers, Kazuhiro Teruya and Wang Pin). Their provisionalkeynote address titles are listed below. As this selection of keynote speakers suggests, the forum organisers are keen to encourage dialogue across a range of functional perspectives, alongside SFL.

Venue: School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Location: 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai, China

Fees:
Standard: RMB￥1,800    Early bird standard:RMB￥1,500
Student: RMB￥1,200    Early bird student: RMB￥800(Early bird: before 31 October)

Travel, accommodation and meals are to be arranged by participants on their own.

Registration: Please fill in the registration form(at the end of this document) and send it to martincentre@163.com and pay the registration fee (instructions below)

Accommodation: Participants can stay at Academic Activity Centre, an on-campus guesthouse within 10 minutes’ walking distance from the conference venue. The price varies by room type (Standard rooms – RMB360 per night; executive rooms – RMB699, 899, 1099, 1299 per night). For further information and reservation please contact the Centre via +86 21 54740800.

Contact: Wang Pin, martincentre@163.com, +86 15121004695
 

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1.缴费网址及缴费流程

2.主旨发言人

3.大会日程

4.报名表