Abstracts of Papers for ISFC-97

Abu-Mansour, Dr. Anas Hasan, A SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE CLAUSE IN ARABIC
Allen, Patrick and Barbara Smith, Classroom genres and the teaching of science at the elementary level
Asp, Elissa D., SPEECH ACT THEORY AND SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMARS
Aspeslagh, Ellen, Language as ideology: a functional-linguistic analysis of the female voices in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
Baldry, Anthony Computer modelling: students' use of hypermedia tools in analysing oral texts
Banks, David, Information Structure in Cleft Sentences
Berber Sardinha, Tony, Lexical cohesion and segmentation
Blair, June, "I-Statements": A Systemic View of the Philosophical Importance of First Person Statements
Bowcher, Wendy L., Contextual Complexities: The relationship between context and language in radio sports commentating
Brouwers, Werner, A SYSTEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE GENERIC MACROSTRUCTURE OF THE BUSINESS LETTER OF REQUEST
Callow, Jon, Equity in the Videosphere
Carretero, Marta; Marin, Juana; Martinez, Elena; Neff, JoAnne;, Identifying Topic Management Signals: A Taxonomy
Casas, Maria, Lillian Allen's "Revolutionary Tea Party" and the Semiotics of Speech, Music, and Other Sounds
Chaban, Peter, The Relationship between Text Formation and Register Selection in the Writings of Adolescent Patients with Psychotic Symptoms
Chen, Yueh-miao, Effective Writing Instruction: University Students' Perceptions
Chen, Dr. Hsiu-chieh (Sophia), Systemic Functional Grammar in a Teacher and Student Writing Conference: A Case Study
Collins, Peter, Get-passives in English
Crawford, MaryAnn K., Other Voices: Functions of Reported Language in Students' Narratives of Learning
Cross, Marilyn, Making Meaning in Multimodal Contexts.
Davies, Eirian Parliamentary language
de Villiers, Jessica The nominal group in English: reasons for a revised systemic functional approach
Diaz-Santos, Gilberto, Technothrillers, EST, and genre variation.
Don, Alexanne, Participant roles and the interpersonal metafunction in mailing list interaction
Downes, William, Religious Language
Dudley-Marling, Curt, Language of the classroom: Resisting democracy in schools
Fawcett, Robin The nominal group in English: reasons for a revised systemic functional approach
Fine, Jonathan, Making and conveying meaning in psychiatric syndromes
Forey, Gail, Learning How and What to Teach from Looking at the Context
Forson, Barn, The Bound a- as an Adverbial Marker in English
Fulton, Gordon D. Words wielding matter: Code in a scene from King Lear
Geslin, Nicole, Writing literary criticism
Gilbert, Janet R., Language in Orbit: Exploring Connections from Word Group to Sentence to Genre
Guo, Yiqin How does Buck Convey Her Meaning in The Good Earth
Hand, Linda, Modality and power in service provider interviews: Speech pathologists and parents of different cultural backgrounds
Haneda, Mari and Gordon Wells, Beyond mere words: Negotiating the meaning of a science experiment
Hartnett, Carolyn G., Themes and Rhymes in Folk Songs
Janta-Polczynski, D.Sc., Martin Sense-fixation in scientific domains makes scientific discourse possible: A simple illustration using scales and fuzziness
Jordan, Mike, SIGNALLING THE BASIS-ASSESSMENT (B-A) MEANING IN ENGLISH
Keshavarz, Dr. Mohammad Hossein, A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Metathesis in Persian
Lai, Venny, Alfred Lee, and Vivian Li, Modelling Profession Culture through Peer-Editing
Lauerbach, Gerda, Learning how to mean in the foreign language classroom
Lemke, J L, Evaluative Meaning In Multimedia Genres.
Leung, Pui Wan Pamela, Learning how to mean in writing: The student teachers' acquisition of Modern Standard Written Chinese in Hong Kong.
Love, Kristina, Phases and Functions: the 'shape' of classroom literary response
Macaulay, Marcia Indirectness and Gender in Requests for Information
Marcu, Daniel, The automatic derivation of complex conjunctive structures
Martinec, Radan, Language as part of an inter-semiotic system
McGowan, Ursula, Trial of a media language program for Economics I students.
Measures, Elizabeth, The English Pronominal System: Exploiting the Potential Ambiguity of Plural Pronouns for the Realization of Power Relations
Menendez, Professor Salvio Martin , DISCOURSE STRATEGIES AND THE LEXICON: THE AIDS CASE
Mohan, B., Y. Gao, G. Huxur, C. Kanada, K. Kudo, X. Liang, A. Wu, Activities: discourse analysis and qualitative research
Moisejenko, Elena, Foreign Language Teaching: Can It Do Without Systemic Functional Grammar ?
Nanri, Keizo, Where Can We Find Theme in Japanese?
O'Donnell, Michael, Modelling Culture: Information Representation in a Museum Context.
O'Toole, Michael, From Systems to Hypertext: Mapping Semiotic Space in Art
Oyama, Rumiko, Visual Semiotics Across Cultures - A Study of Advertisements in Japan and Britain
Peets, Kathleen, Dr. Rosemary Tannock, Dr. Jonathan Fine, Towards a Systemic Functional Model in the Analysis of Self-Initiated Corrections and Repetitions in Children's Narratives
Perrett, Gillian, Mike Baynham, Leigh N. Wood, and Geoffrey H., Harnessing a SFL Understanding of Text to Develop Literacy Skills for Undergraduate Mathematics Students
Rashidi, Linda Stump, An anatomy of trilingualism: Cohesion in the English texts of Moroccan university students
Ratti, Manav S., 'Where's the Text?' Visual Semiosis in Literary Theory
Ren, Shaozeng Symbolic Use of Lexico-grammatical Features in Discourse
Royce, Terry, Encapturing meaning in the Economist magazine: the analysis of intersemiosis in text.
Schweizer, Prof. Dr. Harald , THE GAP BETWEEN SYSTEMIC DESCRIPTION AND DEFINITION OF FUNCTION
Shimazumi, Marilisa, Institutional Interactions from a Transitivity Perspective
Shimazumi, Marilisa and Tony Berber Sardinha, Transitivity Control in Institutional interactions
Soh, Constance Learning how to mean in a business context: the role of Systemic Functional Linguistics in handling shifts in register in business proposals
Spruiell, Bill, Wearing Multiple Hats: A Usefully Complex Theory of Participant Roles
Steiner, Prof. Dr. Erich, Construing contextualization as meaning - some thoughts on a semantics for THEME
Stillar, Glenn, Expert Advice and the 'Gift': Verbal and Visual Orientational Semiosis in Business Discourse
Sullivan, Francis, Accommodation, Resistance and Elaboration: Given-New and Strategic Conduct Toward Authority
Taboada, Maite, Contextual Information for Disambiguation in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Tamazaki, Magoji (Nanzan University), Seiki Ayano (Mie, Grammaticalization as an Issue for Defining a Clause in Japanese
Tatsuki, Masa-aki, On the Treatment of 'Finiteness': A Contrastive study of English and Japanese
Tench, Paul, Accommodating New Patterns into the Intonation Systems of English
Thompson, Alan, Intercultural English in the Asia-Pacific: A Systemic View
Thwaite, Dr. Anne & Pinfold, Christy, A CD-ROM for teaching functional discourse analysis
Torsello, Carol Taylor >From reading comprehension to systemic functional text analysis: a computer-assisted teaching unit
Tucker, Gordon Howard, The Lexicogrammarian and the Child: Two Kinds of Learner with the Same Objective
Veltman, Robert, DUALITY OF PATTERNING AND SFG
White, Peter R., Inventing Objectivity: modes of narrative and the historical development of the news story in French and English journalism
Winser, Bill, Jane Torr and Bev Derewianka, Producing a framework of developmental sequences for the validation of language curricula: issues and early findings
Wortham, Stanton and Michael Locher, Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Media Bias
Wu, Canzhong & Christian Matthiessen Making A Linguist's Life Easier
Xiong, Xueliang How do we view the 'zero phenomenon' in the Chinese lexico-grammatical system?
Xu, Ruiyun and Winser, Bill, Patterns in the Use of Cohesive Devices in Expository Writing by Chinese ESL Learners and Native English Speakers
Yeung, Lorrita N.T., Where Action Speaks: Modalization and Modulation in Business Reports
Yong, Heming, A Functional Approach to Chinese English and China English
Young, Lynne, SEMANTIC RESOURCES AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF L2 ACQUISITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR ESL TEACHERS, LANGUAGE ASSESSORS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCHERS
Zhang, Ren, Topic structure and sentence semantics

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