The 30th International Systemic Functional Congress

8-13 December, 2003
Lucknow, India
Theme: "Functional Fraternity".

Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: Coordinators:
Location:
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). To learn more about Lucknow, see:
http://travel.indiamart.com/lucknow/
The congress venue will be:

   Hotel Clark Avadh
   8, M.G.Marg
   P.O.Box 59
   Lucknow 226 001 		   Fax: 0522-616507
   Web site: www.hotelclarksavadh.com


Contact:
Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL)
Regional Centre,
Moti Mahal Campus,
2, Rana Pratap Marg,
Lucknow-226001, India 		Email:  isfc2003@sify.com
Web:   http://www.ciefl.ac.in
Phone:  0091-0522-216073
Fax:   0091-0522-285771
National Organising Committee:
  • V. Prakasam
  • Ram Das Akella
  • Ashok Kumar
  • Sukhdev Singh
  • Surabhi Bharati
  • Rajneesh Arora
  • V.G. Chandramohan

 International Organising Committee:
  • Bernard Mohan
  • Robin Fawcett
  • Christian Matthiessen
  • Geoffrey Williams
Plenaries & Workshops:
  • John Bateman
  • David Butt
  • Robin Fawcett
  • Huang Guowen
  • Jim Martin
  • Christian Matthiessen
  • Bernard Mohan
  • Chris Nesbitt
  • David Rose
  • Kazuhiro Teruya
  • Geoff Williams
  • Wu Canzhong

Abstracts of plenaries NOW available here. (updated 1/11/03)

Professor MAK Halliday and Professor Ruqaiya Hasan will also attend the congress.

Paper & Workshop Proposals:


Abstracts of accepted papers NOW available here. (updated 1/11/03)

We have extended the deadline for abstracts, and will accept submissions for the conference up until:

November 15, 2003

The conference theme is "Functional Fraternity": Functional linguistic theories differ from their formal counterparts to the extent that function theories explicitly bring in the cotextual values of Form, whereas formal theories tend to ignore this aspect. The Functional schools themselves, including Lexical-Functional theory, Role-Reference Theory, Functional Grammar (Dik) and Systemic Functional Theory, handle the form-function dialectic in different ways. Papers exploring the form-function dialectic from a particular theory, or contrasting approaches from different schools, will be particularly welcome. Papers outside the theme will also be considered.

Papers and Workshops can be presented in any of the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, French and Hindi. An English version must accompany an original abstract which is not in English.

To submit a proposal for a paper or workshop, please email to isfc2003@sify.com with the following details:

Registration:

Registrations closes November 15, 2003.

Fees

Fees include morning/afternoon tea/coffee during session breaks Monday to Saturday and lunch on all 6 days.

Special offer: Participants who register for both the Institute and the Congress will get 25% discount on the Congress Registration Fee.

Part registration fee waivers may be available to a few Delegates from countries with foreign exchange problems.

The Registration fee can be remitted through International cheques/drafts/Money Orders made payable to Systemic Functional Linguistics Association at Lucknow for crediting to Account No. SB 7066 at State Bank of Hyderabad, 6B, Sapru Marg, Lucknow-226001, India. The fee can be remitted in US dollars or Indian Rupees.

Credit cards are also acceptable now. To contact Prof. V. Prakasam: Fax: 0091-522-2285771; Telephone: 0091-522-2216073 E-mail: prakasam@ciefl.ac.in and isfc2003@sify.com

To register, please email to isfc2003@sify.com with the following details:

Accommodation & Travel Details:

For details of accomodation and Travel, see here.