Programme
		
August 1, 2005  (Day 1)
	
10.00	Registration opens	
12.00	Lunch	
13.10	General introduction and welcome (Room 1.10)	
13.30	Plenary session 1
Paul Thibault    Mental Processes, agency, and interpersonal moral orders: the grammar of remembering and forgetting
	
	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Parallel paper session 3	
14.40	John Flowerdew
Signalling nouns and their relation to the Hallidayan metafunctions	Sky McLaughlin
Making Palestine Mean: West Bank children’s writings viewed from a linguistic perspective	Elizabeth Swain
Field as the genesis of ‘situational’ humour	
15.20	Tea and coffee break
	
	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Workshop 1	
15.50	María Martínez Lirola 
A Critical Analysis Of The Image Of Immigrants In Multimodal Texts: Exploring How The Ideational Function Is Created	Li LI 
The Grammar of Linguistic Awareness in English and Chinese: Meaning Layers of Transitivity 
	Geoff Thompson
Mapping semantics onto structure (and vice versa) in transitivity analyses	
16.30	Marta Carretero & Asunción Villamil Touriño 
Lexical meaning and transitivity: a contrastive study of the REMEMBERING lexical system in English and Spanish	Sonja Starc
Instructions As A Goal-Achievement Pattern Of The Text		
17.10	Martin Edwardes
The Ideational Metafunction and Nonhuman Signalling	Sylvia Jones
There can be a problem: an investigation of uses of  there as an initiating element in an experiential process		
17.50	End of the day’s events	

August 2, 2005  (Day 2)

	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Parallel paper session 3	
9.00	Geoff Thompson
Analysing transitivity in text: methodological considerations	David Banks
The Position of Ideology in an SFL Model  	Birgit Huemer
Analyzing digital art: modelling experience through multiple modes	
9:40	Angela Alameda Hernández
SFL and CDA: The transitivity system in the study of the discursive construction of national identity (Case study: Gibraltar)	Peter Muntigl
Ideational or Interpersonal First? Which Metafunction is Responsible for Facilitating Change in Psychotherapy?	Dai Fei Yang
Multimodality: Three levels of image analysis in meaning making	
10:20	Alyson Steele Weickert
Linguistic marks of power at the clause level of representation
	Maria Freddi
Representing Scientific Knowledge: an analysis of Darwin’s prose	N.A.J. Moore
Crossing the Metafunctions: Bridging inference and cohesion
	
11:00	Tea and coffee break
	
11:30	Plenary session 2
Julia Lavid     The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish: a systemic-functional approach	
12:40	Lunch
	
	Parallel paper session 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	
13.50	Lynne Flowerdew
Working from the APPRAISAL system to experiential meanings in analyzing apprentice and professional writing	Chilukuri Bhuvaneswar 
Svabhavam And Field In Meaning – Making:A Karmik Sfl Exploration Into Proverb Ideation	Robin Fawcett & Amy Neale
TRANSITIVITY analysis for the twenty-first century: How to identify Process types and Participant Roles
	
14.30	Jiska Marita Engelbert
Alternative manifestations of the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions in Labour’s post-1997 election broadcasts: A further investigation of multimodal affordances			
15.10	Claire Scott
“A mother’s choice”: The grammar of a survivor story from the South-East Asia tsunamis			
15:50	Tea and coffee break
	Tea and coffee break when convenient	Tea and coffee break when convenient	
	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Workshop 4	
16:20	Alison Love
Taking The Viewer Into The Field	María Barrio
Developing the written style features of Spanish pre-university EFL students’ texts: experiential meaning-making resources and choices	Mick O'Donnell
Difficult Process-type Workshop	
17:00	Philip Windridge
Distinguishing Ambiguity and Contestation in Transcripts Using Instantial Taxonomy Relations	Arianna Maiorani
‘Reloading’ movies into commercial reality: a multimodal analysis of representational structures in “The Matrix” trilogy promotional posters		
17:40	End of the day’s sessions	End of the day’s sessions		
17:50	Reception hosted by Equinox	

August 3, 2005  (Day 3)

	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Parallel paper session 3	
9.00	Eija Ventola
Exploring field and ideational metafunction in Service Encounter learning materials?	Yanjie Gao, Xiían & Mohsen Ghadessy
Processes and Participants in Parallel Texts: Martin Luther Kingís speech in English and Chinese learning materials?	María Jesús Pinar Sanz
Multimodality And Political Discourse	
9:40	Ana Martín, María Barrio, Laura Hidalgo, Susana Murcia, Luis Ordóñez, Karina Vidal, Rachel Whittaker 
The expression of experiential meaning in EFL students’ texts: an analysis of secondary school recounts	Merja de Mattos-Parreira
Meaning-making in the Finnish epic Kalevala: on transitivity	Christopher Taylor 
Meaning-making in film: the metafunctions in and  beyond the word	
10:20	Sridevi Sriniwass
Tactic Augmentation and Circumstantial Augmentation in the Creation of Field Meanings	Erich Steiner
Building a corpus for investigating properties of translated texts	Martin Kaltenbacher
Identification and other processes in web-sites of tourism	
11:00	Tea and coffee break
	
11:30	Plenary session 3
Kay Halloran   The Multimodal Construction of Experience	
12:40	Lunch	
	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2	Workshop 5	
13.50	Peter Fries
Exploring the textual metafunction in problem-solution text segments	Serge Sharoff 
What's really bugging you? How to translate emotions between English and Russian	Jorge Arús Hita 
Teaching ‘how’ to mean in a second language: a practical case	
14.30	Mick O'Donnell, Michelle Zappavigna & Casey Whitelaw
A survey of process type classification over difficult cases	Ingrid Westhoff 
A snapshot into the meaning-making of reading textbooks		
15.10	Sarah North 
Texture, humour, and online chat
	Sheena Gardner & Hilary Nesi 
Ideational Meaning in a Corpus of Student Academic Writing		
15:50	Tea and coffee break
	Tea and coffee break when convenient	
	Parallel paper session 1	Workshop 6	Workshop 7	
16:20	Ann Montemayor-Borsinger 
Meaning making in research writing: Instantial and Conventional wordings in thematic position	Alyson Steele Weickert 
Exploring meaning-making:Implementing a semantic-pragmatic model (UFSC, Brazil) to detect and account for the notion of power in language at the ideational level of representation	Giuseppe Mammone
 Language and Behaviour	
17.00	Issra Pramoolsook 
Field and effects of genre transfer: An investigation of changes in field from dissertation to research article in two disciplines 			
17.40	End of the day’s sessions	
18.00	Annual General Meeting	
19.15	Pre-conference dinner reception	
20.00	Conference Dinner	

August 4, 2005  (Day 4)
	
	Parallel paper session 1	Parallel paper session 2		
9.20	A.I. Moreno and L. Suarez-Tejerina 
Meaning Interaction in the Expression of Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews	Alison Love 
‘Demonstrate that you understand the difference’: ESL student transitivity choices in a short answer test in Sociology		
10.00	Anne McCabe & Christopher Gallagher 
Approximating Academic Register: The Function of the Nominal Group 
Kimberley Safford, Tracey Costley & Constant Leung
 Presenting students' experience: working out a sociocultural puzzle	Kimberley Safford, Tracey Costley & Constant Leung
 Presenting students' experience: working out a sociocultural puzzle		
10.40	Tea and coffee break
	
11.10	Plenary Session 4  
Round Table Discussion with Jan Derry, Paul Dowling and Martin Monk
Meaning –making: Perspectives from outside the field of SFL	
12.40	Close and lunch