Teaching of Systemic Functional Linguistics: Middle East
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Bar-Ilan University
Jonathan Fine, English Department, Linguistics Division
Web: http://www.biu.ac.il/HU/en/home/f02e.htm
Jonathan teaches the following courses which are primarilly SFL in
nature:
- 37-471 Applied Discourse Analysis: Introduces the tools for text
analysis focusing on ideational,
interpersonal and textual views of language. Various semesters.
- 37-981 Language and Psychiatry:
The relationship between language and psychiatric disorders, based on
systemic theory, theoretical issues and the analysis of texts. Various
semesters
- 37-996 Cohesion:
Study of both theoretical and text analyses of cohesion. The work
involves
analyses of texts and the relation of those analyses to processing,
educational and genre issues. Various semesters.
- 37-9XX Structure of social interaction:
Analysis of interaction in context by looking at a range of meaning
systems, realisations and how they interact to create social processes.
Various semesters
- 37-9XX Conversation interaction:
Intensive study of the structure and function of conversational
interaction, based on the interpersonal metafunction of systemic
functional linguistics. Various semesters
Jonathan File is also available to supervise Ph.D.s in SFL. His
research interests include: Discourse Analysis, Conversational
Analysis, Language of Psychiatric
Disorders (schizophrenia, ADHD, autism, depression, etc.), Systemic
Functional Theory.
Contact:
Jonathan Fine
Department of English
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan Israel
Email: finejo@mail.biu.ac.il