Every Friday afternoon the SFL people in Sydney run a systemics workshop series and this semester looks fabulous:
10 March WORKSHOP: Sue Hood Appraisal: Graduation.
17 March Sook Hee Lee: The Use of Interpersonal Resources in Argumentative/Persuasive Essays by East-Asian ESL and Australian Tertiary Students
24 March Jim Martin, Clare Painter, Len Unsworth Ambience/appraisal in images
31 March Jan Renkema Discourse Analysis
7 March WORKSHOP: Jan Renkema Discourse Analysis
28 April Anderson de Souza; The construal of interpersonal meanings in the discourse of national anthems: An appraisal analysis
5 May Chris Chesher Search, query, invocation: databases and transductive language acts
12 May Emilia Djonov: Exploring the interaction between website design and use: logico-semantic relations in a children’s website and its navigation
19 May WORKSHOP: Sumin Zhao Theory of Color: From Science to Semiotics
26 May Betty Pun: Intersemiosis in Film: A Metafunctional and Multimodal Exploration of Colour and Sound in the Films of Wong Kar-wai
2 June WORKSHOP/PRESENTATION: Dorothy Economou and Sally Humprhey: Appraisal: Engagement analysis
Anybody wanna come? They’re held in the Mills building, room 148, from 4-5.30pm.
Yeppppppppp!
Comment by B back in Sydney — March 7, 2006 @ 8:11 pm
Yeah there are at least 7 of them that I am very interested in - lots of fabulous multimodal stuff!!! You will adoooore Betty Pun’s film analysis one - I went to one of her presentations before and it was totally rivetting!
Comment by Anya — March 7, 2006 @ 8:21 pm