Mon. 16 July

10.00: Reception and registration

14.00: Opening
 

14.30: Plenary talk: Peter H. Fries, Central Michigan University, USA.    What Makes a Text Coherent?

15.45: Break
 

16.15: Michael Cummings, York University, Canada.  Cohesion and Genre in continuous Text. 16.50: Morley, David, University of Strathclyde, U.K.  Analysing syntactic function: elements of clause structure in systemic grammar.  17.25: Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, UK.  The Role of Conjunction in Text as Exchange.

Tues 17 July
 

9.20: Anne McCabe, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.  Thematic Progression Patterns and Text Types in History Textbooks. 9.55: Srinivass, Sridevi, University of Malaya, Malasia.  A Systemic-Semantic Investigation of Textuality through the Resources of Ideational Lexis.

10.25: Break
 

11.00: David Banks, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France.  Degrees of Newness. 11.35: Martin Davies, UK.  "Two truths ... of the Imperial Theme". 12.10: Carlos A.M. Gouveia, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Leila Barbara, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.  It is not there, but [it] is cohesive: the case of pronominal ellipsis of subject in Portugese.

12.40: Lunch
 

14.30: Plenary talk: Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool, UK.    The textual dimension of lexical choice (and I’m not referring to cohesion)

15.45: Break
 

16.15         16.50         17.25

Lise Fontaine, Université de Bordeaux 2, France.  Textual Challenges in Recursive Texts.         Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.  Building Textual Resources for Multilingual Generation: A function-typological approach.   Marten Van Mol & Mick O'Donnell; Language&Computing nv, Belgium. Medical Discharge Notices: Relating generic structure to recurring linguistic patterns.

Julia Rodiguez, Universite La Sorbonne- Paris V, France. Thematic progression and Field Tenor and Mode in Two Folktales.   Alice Caffarel, University of Sydney, Australia. The Representation of a Second-order Semiosis in Camus' L'Etranger.   Janet Ormrod, ENSTB, France. Theme in Breton: A comparative study of a text in Breton and in French by P.-J. Hélias.

18.30: Reception, Town Hall

Wed 18 July
 

8.45: Mohsen Ghadessy, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei & Yanjie Gao, XJTU, China.  Simplification as a Universal Feature of the language of Translation. 9.20: Robert Spence, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.  The Textual Metafunction as a Didactic Problem in Applied Translation Studies. 9.55: Erich Steiner, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.  Translated Texts: Some properties derived from modelling understanding as grammatical de-metaphorisation.

10.25:  Break
 

11.00     11.35     12.10

Ana Hansen de Chambouleyron, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. Non-finite Clauses in Thematic Position. Hilde Hasselgård, University of Oslo, Norway. Temporal and Spatial Adjuncts as Elements of Texture. Francisco Nieto Diez & Jorge Hita Arús, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. English and Spanish Structure: The textual metafunction as a constrastive tool for the analysis of languages.

Mia Bostrom Aronson, Goteborg University, Sweden. Thematic Differences between Swedish Advanced Learner Writing and Native Speaker Writing. Alain Thomas, University of Guelph, Canada. Textual Cohesion, Pauses and hesitations in the speech of advanced FSL students. Caroline Coffin, Ann Hewings & Barbara Mayor, Open University, UK. The Textual and the Interpersonal: Theme and affect in student writing.

12.40: Lunch
 

14.30: Plenary talk: Theo van Leeuwen, University of Cardiff, UK.  Evaluation and Legitimation in Discourse - A multimodal approach

15.45: Break
 

16.15         16.50

Thomas Andersen, University of Southern Denmark. The System of Theme in the Danish Clause.       Wendy Bowcher, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan. Theme-Rheme and Given-New Patterns in Radio Play-by-Play Sports Commentary.

Mohamed Saki, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France. Thematic Progression Patterns and Generic Identity. An analysis of the distribution of thematic progression patterns in abstracts.

19.30: Departure for Conference Dinner.

Thurs 19 July

9.00: Association Française de la Linguistique Systémique Fonctionnelle
 Inaugural Meeting.

10.00: European SFL Business Meeting.

10.30: Break
 

11.00: Raimund Schiess, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.  Reading the Television Screen: Text, texture, screen design. 11.35: Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Université d'Orléans, France.  Visual Textual Patterns in Scientific Conference Presentations. 12.10: Webber, Pauline, Italy.  From Spoken Science to Published Research Article:a Comparative Study

12.40: Lunch
 

14.30: Emilia Ribeiro Pedro, University of Lisbon, Portugal.  Cleft  Sentences in Business Meetings in Brazilian and European Portugese. 15.05: Carminda Silvestre, ESTG-IPL/ULICES, Portugal.  Discourse Markers as Texture Creating Devices in Business Meetings 15.40: Rob Veltman, UK. - WITHDRAWN  On Clarity/ Sur la clarté dans le discours.

16.10: Break

16.45: Final Session.