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The theme of ASFLA2022 is Renewal and Resilience: Making Meaning in a Changing World, which celebrates SFL’s continuing quest for understanding semiosis with a view to making a positive social change. Specifically, we wish to highlight SFL’s contributions to understanding how meaning-making resources are used to engage with the issues facing our era of uncertainty and rapid change: pandemics, climate change, infodemics/misinformation, healthcare, war, technological disruptions, access to (online) education, to name but a few. More broadly, the conference aims to provide a forum for scholarly discussion on how the different areas of SFL theory and related disciplines have been applied, adapted, and/or extended to explore texts in both old and new contexts.

We invite abstracts that relate the conference theme to the fields of research that include but are not limited to:

• SFL

• appliable linguistics

• discourse analysis

• multimodality and social semiotics

• educational and applied linguistics

• digital communication

• healthcare communication

• clinical linguistics

• digital humanities

• translation and interpretation 

As always, we welcome all papers aimed at advancing any area of SFL theory or praxis.

Full papers consist of a 25-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. The word limit for abstracts is 250 words (excluding references).

Colloquia: As we will only have space for a small number of themed panels, please email the conference organisers separately if you intend to submit a proposal for a colloquium.

Workshops: If you would like to organise a workshop, please contact the conference organisers directly. Workshops should be practical and involve participants in activities. Ideally, participants will experience methods of SFL analysis. All workshops need to state the level of prior knowledge or experience expected.

Key Dates

Deadline for abstract submission: 17th April 2022 (Time Zone: AEDT Sydney)

Notification of acceptance: 15th May 2022 (Time Zone: AEDT Sydney)

Submission Information

Abstracts must be submitted online.

Please do not email your submissions to the organising committee members.