Beatriz Quiroz博士讲座（之一）

   Beatriz Quiroz博士讲座（之一）

主讲：Beatriz Quiroz博士（智利天主教大学助理教授；马丁中心访问学者）

时间：2016年6月16日（星期四）10:00

地点：外院214会议室

联系人：王品

 

标题：Language description: the SFL approach and its relevance

摘要：Over the decades, the focus of SFL descriptive work was mainly on the
grammar of English. With English accounts as the starting point, a number of
theoretical and descriptive developments emerged that are key to the current
shape of SFL architecture. With the shift of focus to the exploration of
different languages in the 90s - contributing to what is now known as SFL
language typology -, descriptive work has again come to the fore with a
number of potentialities and challenges to be addressed. The aim of this
talk is to explore such potentialities and challenges, by first locating
cross-linguistic work in relation to SFL theory and exploring associated
descriptive principles and generalisations. The second part of the talk
turns to a general discussion of the relevance of this kind of work to an
‘appliable linguistics’ across languages (thus functioning as an
introduction to the following two talks). 

 

主讲人简介：Beatriz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Language
Sciences in the Faculty of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile (PUC-Chile), where she teaches and supervises undergraduate and
postgraduate students in Linguistics. She completed her PhD at the
University of Sydney, Australia, in 2013. Her current research, informed by
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focuses on a metafunctionally
integrated description of clause systems in Chilean Spanish, with special
emphasis on the system-structure principle embodied by the theoretical
dimension of axis. Other research interests include the interaction between
lexicogrammar and discourse-semantics, and systemic functional language
typology. Relevant publications include “Towards a systemic profile of the
Spanish MOOD” (recently reprinted in the multi-volume book Systemic
Functional Linguistics, edited by Martin & Doran, 2015, Routledge) and “The
verbal group” (to appear in The Handbook of Systemic Functional
Linguistics, edited by Bartlett & O’Grady, Routledge). Further details
about her work and academic interests can be found at
http://beatrizquiroz.weebly.com/