INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS CONGRESS

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The Congress will be held in Lucknow in December 2003 (the weather in December will be fabulously cool and pleasant in the whole of North India). The congress will be hosted by the Systemic Functional Linguistics Association recently registered in Hyderabad. Professor S.K.Verma is the President of the Association and Professor V.Prakasam is the Secretary. ISFC 2003 will be in three parts which are presented below.  The coordinators of the Congress are:

• V.Prakasam (isfc2003@sify.com);
• R.D.Akella;
• Dr B.Mallikarjun.

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Pre-congress Institute (1-6 December)

Introductory (30 hours)

Assumptions, Semantics, Phonology and Lexicogrammar.

Advanced (30 hours)

Phonology, Lexicogrammar, Compugrammar

Details  here

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Congress (8-13 December)

• Plenaries and Dinner Talks
  • Systemic Functional Linguists
  • From Other Schools of Functionalism
  • Indian Linguistics
• Workshops
• Forums and Panels
• Paper presentations

Details  here

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International Symposium on Language, Law and Life (15-17 December)

Coordinators: V.Prakasam

                        John Gibbons

Languages of presentation: English, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi.

·         Language of the Law

·         Legal Language and Simplification Processes

·         Legal Translation and Interpretation

·         Legal Interaction in the courts with the police

·         Language Disadvantage before law

·         Language crimes—perjury, conspiracy, copyright, vilification

·         Forensic Linguistics

·         Teaching Language of the Law

Details  here

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Queries may kindly be addressed to  isfc2003@sify.com