THE CONFERENCE IN A NUTSHELL
29 JUNE
REGISTRATION (8:30-9:00) + YOGA IN THE OPEN AIR
CONFERENCE OPENING & WELCOME (9:00-9:15)
PLENARY LECTURE: Tom Bartlett (9:15-10:30)
COFFEE BREAK (10:30-11:00)
S1/2nd COLLOQUIUM 'EVI' + PANEL SESSIONS (11:00-
13:00)
CONFERENCE PHOTO (13:00)
LUNCH BREAK (13:30-14:30)
S2/2nd COLLOQUIUM 'EVI' + PANEL SESSIONS (14:30-
16:30)
COFFEE BREAK (16:30-17:00)
S3/2nd COLLOQUIUM 'EVI' Round Table + PANEL
SESSIONS (17:00-18:00)
GT GUEST SPEAKER: Mick O'Donnell (18:15-19:30)
WINE & CHEESE (EQUINOX) + ESFLA AWARD (19:30)
Pre-conference SFL Institute (Juan del Enzina building, Plaza de Anaya):
30 JUNE 1 JULY
REGISTRATION (8:30-9:00) + YOGA IN THE OPEN AIR
REGISTRATION (9:00-9:30) + YOGA IN THE OPEN AIR
st
S4/1 COLLOQUIUM 'LSF' + PANEL SESSIONS (9:00-10:30) S7/1st COLLOQUIUM 'LSF' + PANEL SESSIONS (9:30-
10:30)
COFFEE BREAK (10:30-11:00) COFFEE BREAK (10:30-11:00)
PLENARY LECTURE: Jorge Ars (11:00-12:15) PLENARY LECTURE: Adriana Bolvar (11:00-12:15)
S5/1st COLLOQUIUM 'LSF' + PANEL SESSIONS (12:15- S8/1st COLLOQUIUM 'LSF' + PANEL SESSIONS (12:15-
13:15) 13:15)
LUNCH BREAK (13:15-14:30) CONFERENCE CLOSING & FAREWELL (13:15)
S6/1st COLLOQUIUM 'LSF' + PANEL SESSIONS (14:30-
16:30)
COFFEE BREAK + POSTER DISCUSSION (16:30-17:00)
CERRO SAN VICENTE
PLENARY LECTURE: Annabelle Lukin (17:00-18:15) (ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE IN TOWN; max. 25 visitors)
(time to be confirmed)
AGM (18:30-19:30)
WALKING STROLL IN TOWN (20:00-21:30)
CONFERENCE DINNER (21:30)
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 28 June, 2017
 MORNING WORKSHOPS (9:00-13:30) (30 break)

Introduccin a la Lingstica Sistmica Funcional: perfil Systemic Functional Linguistics: An Introduction (Lise Advanced transitivity (Tom Bartlett, Cardiff University,
metafuncional del castellano (Jorge Ars-Hita, Fontaine, Cardiff University, UK) (introductory UK) (advanced workshop run in English)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espaa) (taller workshop run in English)
de introduccin impartido en espaol)

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS (15:00-19:30) (30 break)

La metafuncin interpersonal en el discurso acadmico Introduction to Corpus Annotation with UAM Intonation in SFL: A Metafunctional Approach (Gerard
escrito (Adriana Bolvar, Universidad Central de CorpusTool (Mick ODonnell, Universidad Autnoma OGrady, Cardiff University, UK) (advanced workshop
Venezuela, Venezuela) (taller avanzado impartido en de Madrid, Spain) (introductory workshop run in run in English)
espaol) English)

Thursday 29 June, 2017

Registration [+ free daily yoga practice in the open air]

8:30-9:00
(Information desk at Juan del Enzina building)

9:00-9:15 Conference Opening at Aula Magna, Palacio de Anaya (Facultad de Filologa)

9:15-10:30 Plenary Lecture: Experience makes mongrels of us all, but practice gives us pedigrees
Aula Magna,
Tom Bartlett (Cardiff University, UK)
Palacio de
Anaya Chair:

10:30-11:00 Coffee break at Hall, Juan del Enzina building (Facultad de Filologa)
Juan del Enzina
Rooms
2nd Colloquium on Empirical SFL at Crossroads in SFL at Contrastive SFL at Crossroads in
11:00-13:00
Evidences and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond Crossroads Linguistics and Beyond
Session 1 Assumptions in SFL
 Chair: Lise Fontaine
Part 1: Challenging theoretical
assumptions
Stella Neumann and Paula Niemietz
On the process of choosing in
translational logogenesis
Gordon Tucker
Lexis as Most Delicate Grammar or
Grammar as Most General Lexis: A
Systemic Functional Response to
Hoeys Theory of Lexical Priming
David Schnthal
Empirical evidence of the textual
metafunction in the use of English
type-noun constructions
Rebecca Wegener & Arianna
Maiorani
Instantiation in modelling multimodal
communication: challenges and
proposals
13:00-13:30
13:30-14:30
Juan del Enzina
Rooms
14:30-16:30 Part 2: Empirical data: What
Chair:
Miriam Prez-Veneros
Disseminating science in school:
Popularization articles as a
'projecting' tool in the EFL
classroom
Fatma Benelhadj
Academic authors at the
crossroads: between individuality
and the community
Richard Awoshiri Kamai
Analysing and teaching the
dynamics of terminology in
Nigerian and South African life
science textbooks: Perspectives
from Systemic Functional
Linguistics
Florencia Figini & Norma
Susana Rezzano
Scientific Literacy at University
EFL Courses: The rhetorical
structure and the construction of
Field in science popularization
articles
Conference group picture at Palacio de Anaya stairs
Lunch time
SFL at the Cutting Edge
Chair:
Kenichi Kadooka
A Contrastive study of the
Modality systems of English
and Japanese
Christian Matthiessen
Tense and aspects as
complementary models of
process time in languages
Lsmer Montecino
around the world
Paul White
Theme-rheme weighing in
English and Italian
Ann Montemayor-Borsinger
& Ana Mara Coria
A contrastive analysis of the
texture of short stories in
English translated to Spanish
SFL at Contrastive
Chair:
Linus Ng
Lets deal with this big fat lie once
and for all: A linguistic analysis of
deception in EU referendum
M Jess Pinar
The expression of interpersonal
meanings in political advertising
(Im)politeness, social image and
construction of fear and anger in
radio programs in Santiago de Chile
from the appraisal system
Ruth Breeze
Graduation in populist political
discourse: Some insights from
Appraisal
SFL at Contrastive
Session 2 counts? How should it be
interpreted?
Elissa Asp
Problems of access and selection? A Luca Rivas
control network involved in picture
naming and its implications for naming
deficits in early semantic variant
primary progressive aphasia
Lise Fontaine & Michelle Aldridge
Keystroke logging data: What can it
tell us?
Arndt Heilmann
The influence of experimental aspects
of meaning on the translation process
Pault Thibault
What happens between and within
speakers during language processing
and production? Jos Mara Gonzlez Lanza &
16:30-17:00
Part 3: Roundtable discussion:
Empirical evidences and
17:00-18:00 theoretical assumptions
Session 3 Discussion among all speakers and
any others present to discuss
of Descriptions of
Language
Chair:
Bottom up: Building meanings
from the Phonology
Nadia Elias
Exploring how Marked Theme
and intonation help achieve
topical coherence in spoken
discourse in English
Carolina Mirallas & Mariana
Pascual
Corpus Tool-aided text
annotation and manual analysis:
A useful combination for
semantic description
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
& Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
Arsenio Jess Moya Guijarro
Towards a new system network
for analysing modality in
audiovisual documents
Coffee break
SFL at Intercultural
Crossroads
Chair: Miriam Prez-Veneros
Martin Kaltenbacher
Cultural differences in evaluation
Crossroads
Thematic Session: The
Sayer in Projection
across Languages
McCabe
Kazuhiro Teruya, Pattama
Patpong & Canzhong Wu
Sayerhood in languages of Asia:
Japanese, Thai and Chinese
Mohamed Ali Bardi
The Sayer in verbal clauses in
Arabic
Gillian Moss & Jess Guerra
Characteristics of Sayers in
verbal clauses found in journal
articles in the field of language
and linguistics in Spanish
Variation in sayerhood across
languages
SFL at the Cutting Edge
of Descriptions of
Language
Chair:
Chair:
Karl Haloj
Crossroads
Chair:
Rachel Whittaker & Anne
Writing Cognitive Discourse
Functions: The Transition from
Primary to Secondary in Bilingual
Classes
Agustn Reyes Torres & Mara
Alcantud-Daz
SFL Theory in Practice in Higher
Education and Primary Schools:
From Functional Grammar to
Fictional
Ana Llinares & Natalia Evnitskaya
An SFL contrastive analysis of
teacher talk when teaching the
same subject in Spanish and
English
Estefana Avils y Julia Lavid
Investigating Discourse Markers in
English and Spanish: The case of
elaborating connectives
SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond
Corinne Maxwell-Reid
How less experienced writers use
 answers to the following questions:
1. What counts as relevant data
and what are the parameters
related to this?
2. How should empirical data
inform how we support/refute
theoretical assumptions?
3. To what extent do process
questions, such as what happens
within and between individual
speakers during language
processing and production,
integrate with the (social-
semiotic) system based models
of SFL?
patterns. Appraisal in British and
German news reports and
commentary
Celia Marqus Amors
Soft spots in hard news.
Appraisal strategies in two British
and two Spanish digital
newspapers
Ster ar Poentadur: Towards an embedding in nominal groups: the
empirically sound description of argumentative texts of adolescent
the lexicogrammar of Breton L2 users of English in Hong Kong
punctuation
Mara Dolores Garca-Pastor &
Isaac N. Mwinlaaru Agustn Reyes Torres
A Prosodic-systemic Analysis of Using systemic functional linguistics
ASPECT in Dagaare in EFL writing instruction:
Implementing a genre-based
pedagogy with pre-service Primary
Education teachers of English

Geoff Thompson Guest Lecture (sponsored by the Department of English Studies)

Between notionalism and structuralism: What are the principles underlying grammatical classes in
18:15-19:30 Systemic Functional Linguistics?
Mick ODonnell (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain)
Chair:

Wine & Cheese session (sponsored by Equinox)

19:30
Annual Geoff Thompson Bursary Award

Friday 30 June, 2017

Registration [+ free daily yoga practice in the open air]

8:30-9:00
(Information desk at Juan del Enzina building)
Juan del Enzina
Rooms
1er Colloquio sobre la
LSF en/del Espaol
Chairs: Nora Kaplan y
Jorge Ars
Parte 1a: El aporte de
la LSF a los estudios
del discurso
Daniella Stagnaro
Posicionamientos
9:00-10:30 interpersonales en el artculo David Banks
de investigacin de
Session 4
economa: exploracin del
subsistema de modulacin
Luca Natale
La negociacin de valores,
epistemologas e ideologas
disciplinares en la
retroalimentacin del
profesor
SFL at Intercultural
Crossroads
Chair:
J. Rubn Valds Miyares Claudia Elena Stoian
New Functions for Old
English Poetic Texts:
Systemic Functionalism in
the Anglo-Saxon Cultural
Conte
Translating the academic
article in the late
seventeenth century.
Evidence from the Journal
des Savans and the
Philosophical Transactions
Michael Cummings
The language of early
electrical science: Priestley
and Franklin
SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond
Chair:
Anja Schwarzl
Challenging cultural patterns
in tourism websites: A SFL
perspective
Carminda Silvestre &
Gorete Marques
Genre in advertising: Gazing
at a diachronic perspective
of practice
Anke Schulz
Existing but not visible A
Critical Discourse Analysis of
what it is like to be fat
SFL at Crossroads in SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond Linguistics and Beyond
Chair: Chair:
Cristina Snchez-Martn
From "Sherlock Holmes" to Enacting Linguistic Diversity
"Sherlockology": concepts in Genre Performance: a
and consequences of Systemic Functional
modernization Linguistics Perspective
Arsenio Jess Moya Ana Elina Martnez-Insa &
Guijarro & Jos Mara Javier Prez-Guerra
Gonzlez Lanza
What learners and native
Visual metonymic speakers choose as Theme
occurrences in Brownes
Sulany Silveira dos Santos
picture books. A multimodal & Lucia Rottava
Systemic-Functional and
cognitive study The effects of metaphorical
constructions in texts written
Jon Jureidini & John Walsh in academic context
The language of diagnosis in
psychatry

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Plenary Lecture (sponsored by the Department of English Studies)

11:00-12:15 Pushing the theory out of its comfort zone: SFL applied to the description of Spanish
Jorge Ars (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
 Chair:

Parte 1b: El aporte de
la LSF a los estudios
del discurso
M Beln Grisola
Agentividad y modo:
negociacin de grados de
responsabilidad en mensajes
12:15-13:15
automticos
Session 5
Salvio Martn Menndez
Agentividad: Causalidad y
ejecucin. La proyeccin
discursiva de los procesos
SFL at the Cutting
Edge of Descriptions
of Language
Chair: Sonja Starc
Jonas Freiwald
The myth of the marked
Theme in English
Thomas Hestbaek
Andersen & Alexandra
Holsting
Clause complexing in
systemic functional
lingustics towards an
alternative description
SFL at Contrastive SFL at Crossroads in SFL at Crossroads in
Crossroads Linguistics and Beyond Linguistics and Beyond
Chair: Chair: Chair:
Donna R. Miller & Canzhong Wu & Hailing
Antonella Luporini Yu
Representation of Theme in
Slovene language A fine-tuned SSS as appliable What are we doing in
pedagogical stylistics: A case Chinese government reports
Sheena Gardner & Sylvia
study and their translations?
Xiao Chen
Rebekah Wegener & Laura Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma
Thematic comparisons
Trienekens
across BAWE L2 genre- In Search of a Systemic
discipline-level complexes Textual triggers for emotion Description of Censorship
in Poetry: Eye-tracking and and Translation in Mainland
poetry reading China

13:30-14:30 Lunch time

Parte 1c: El aporte de SFL at Intercultural SFL at Crossroads in SFL at Contrastive

la LSF a los estudios
del discurso
Victoria Zamudio-Jasso
El papel de los recursos de
14:30-16:30 Gradacin en la expresin
de opiniones: Anlisis de
Session 6
textos estudiantiles y
profesionales sobre literatura
hispanoamericana
Natalia Ignatieva
Anlisis ideacional e
interpersonal de escritos
Crossroads
Chair:
Anu Harju
(Non)commemoration as
John Walsh
social critique and the
ideologically aligned self: A
relational approach to
commemorative practices
on social media
Inger Lassen
Voices of dissent: Counter-
Linguistics and Beyond
Thematic Session:
Analysing the
Language of Sports
Communication in Sport: A
Perspective from Systemic
Functional Linguistics
David Caldwell
The language of winners
and losers: A comparative
Crossroads
Chair:
Akila Sellami Baklouti
Transitivity-Ergativity
perspectives on causative
verbs in legal texts: A
contrastive study of Arabic
and English Website Terms
of Use
Sonya Chik
A contrastive description of
 estudiantiles de historia
dentro del marco sistmico
Mariana Pascual
La lxico-gramtica de los No pasarn! (Re)enacting
significados evaluativos en
espaol: propuesta a partir
del anlisis del discurso de
medios en la Argentina
postdictatorial
Dalia Magaa y Teenie
Matlock
Anlisis de gnero y
metforas en narrativas del
cncer en espaol
conduct at a multicultural analysis from one Australian Japanese and English in
crossroads football match corporate regulating texts
Daniel Lees Fryer Gail Forey & Nicholas Clive Hamilton & Shirley
Sampson Thomas
the Battle of Cable Street The impact of making Do English and French do it
on social media language explicit in the PE differently? Comparing mode
classroom and genre in scientific
Sonja Molnar
discourse
Jon Jureidini
Mirror or molder? The
Daniel Couto-Vale
linguistic impact of The medicalisation of
advertising on the emotional distress in elite Spanish ellipsis explained:
construction of cultural sport Dialogue moves as doing
identities things with words

16:30-17:00 Coffee break + POSTER DISCUSSION

Plenary Lecture: Context of situation and context of culture: Ideology, semo-history, and the Salamanca School
17:00-18:15 Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia)
Chair:

ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETING

18:30-19:30
(Aula Minor)

20:00-21:30 WALKING STROLL IN TOWN

21:30 CONFERENCE DINNER*

* Reservations made when registering for the conference. If you did not plan to attend but now you do, ask on arrival at the Registration Desk if there
are still any tickets available to buy (45 Euros)
 Saturday 01 July, 2017

Registration [+ free daily yoga practice in the open air]

9:00-9:30
(Information desk at Juan del Enzina building)

Juan del Enzina

Rooms
1er Colloquio sobre la LSF
en/del Espaol
Parte 2a: La aplicacin de la
LSF a los estudios
contrastivos y de variedades
y a la enseanza del espaol
Mara Cecilia Colombi
9:30-10:30
Un enfoque funcional para el
Session 7
desarrollo de la competencia
acadmica oral en espaol en los
Estados Unidos
Jorge Snchez-Iglesias
La valoracin en la escritura
acadmica de estudiantes
SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond
Chair:
Sharyn Black and Cassi Liardt
Slow boiled vs. microwavable:
Mapping the uptake of academic
literacy skills across an
undergraduate
Claire Acevedo
Bringing language to consciousness:
SFL recontextualised as classroom
pedagogy
SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond
Chair:
Mersini Karagevrekis
Evaluative stance in spoken and
written academic discourse: Text
analysis within an EAP context
Bianca Schller & Jrg Cassens
Aligning multi-modal markers for
importance in Academic Lectures
SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond
Chair:
Jana Holsanova
Audio description: Multimodal
communication between sighted
and blind audiences
Thomas Kaltenbacher & Birgit
Breninger
Tracking Visual Communication and
assessing Intercultural Competence

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Plenary Lecture
The crossroads between discourse and systemic functional linguistics: The grammar of fear in political discourses
11:00-12:15
Adriana Bolvar
Chair: Nora Kaplan
 Parte 2b: La aplicacin de la
LSF a los estudios
contrastivos y de variedades
y a la enseanza del espaol
Julia Lavid y Juan Rafael
Zamorano
El uso de anotaciones bilinges
12:15-13:15 para desvelar significados modales
en ingls y espaol: una propuesta
Session 8
basada en la Gramtica Sistmico-
Funcional (LSF)
Diana Chamorro y Gillian Moss
Patrones de compromiso
heteroglsico en clusulas verbales
en espaol
SFL at Intercultural
Crossroads
Chair:
Monica Turci
Fictional Biography at the
Crossroads. A SFL and Multimodal
Analysis of Running in the Family by
Michael Ondaatje
Yuanyi Ma & Bo Wang
A Systemic Functional Perspective
on Rabindranath Tagores Stray
Birds and Its Chinese Translations
SFL at Crossroads in SFL at Crossroads in
Linguistics and Beyond Linguistics and Beyond
Chair: Chair:
Seyedeh Maryam Alavi Nia (Kevin) Long Li
Localizing Attitude: A reworking of A Multimodal Analysis of the
the Attitude system in Iranian Manipulation of Political Ideology in
presidential debates Translation
Miguel ngel Bentez-Castro & Mara Martnez Lirola
Encarnacin Hidalgo Tenorio Linguistic and visual strategies for
You will love or perhapshate portraying immigrants as people
our proposal: On understanding and deprived of human rights
redefining Martin & Whites
AFFECT taxonomy

Conference closing & Farewell

13:15
(Aula Minor)

CERRO SAN VICENTE

Time to be
60 Optional guided tour (archeological site in town about 15 walking distance from the conference venue) max. 25 people
confirmed
(REGISTER AT THE CONFERENCE INFORMATION DESK)