Martin Centre Forum 2014: Academic Discourse
International Conference on Appliable Linguistics and Academic Discourse
Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
8-12 December 2014
Globalisation presents us with many challenges. As linguists and sociologists, one of the most compelling challenges is academic discourse, especially in languages such as English, Chinese and Spanish, through which so much high-stakes knowledge is produced and reproduced around the world. In this forum we will focus on the nature of academic discourse in English, from both the curricular perspective of what kind of discourse it is, and the pedagogic perspective of how to give our students and colleagues access to that discourse - for without access, neither knowledge production (research) or knowledge reproduction (training) are possible.
Over five days we will explore the range of academic discourses that have evolved as science, social science and the humanities, from the complementary perspectives of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). In addition we will consider the ways in which the literacy pedagogy of the 'Sydney School' can be deployed in secondary school and tertiary education as a crucial vehicle for embedded literacy programs, situated within disciplines (rather than merely alongside them, as with much generic teaching of academic discourse in tertiary education).
The forum will comprise five days of intensive seminars and workshops, led by some of the leading functional linguists in the world (Yaegan Doran, Susan Hood, Talia Gill, J R Martin and David Rose), and by Karl Maton, the creator of Legitimation Code Theory – including interviews/panel discussions featuring these theorists. This group of internationally-renowned scholars have been collaborating in Sydney over the past decade to create many of the newest cutting-edge ideas in both educational linguistics and the sociology of education. This year's forum brings a comprehensive introduction to this highly significant and innovative work on the construal and reconstrual of knowledge in academic discourse to China for the first time.
Schedule
8/12/2014 Monday
8:30-10:00 |
J R Martin |
Systemic Functional Linguistic foundations |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Karl Maton |
Legitimation Code Theory foundations |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Sydney School pedagogy |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Sue Hood |
Academic discourse: disciplinary differences |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
|
17:15-18:15 |
Centre welcome/international launch |
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9/12/2014 Tuesday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Specialisation |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Sue Hood |
Story genres in academic discourse |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Knowledge genres and curriculum genres |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Yaegan Doran |
Mathematics genres |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
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17:15-18:15 |
Interview: David Rose/J R Martin |
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10/12/2014 Wednesday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Semantic density |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
J R Martin |
SFL: revisiting field |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
Yaegan Doran |
Mathematics grammar |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
David Rose |
Reading to Learn and academic discourse |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
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17:15-18:15 |
Interview: Karl Maton/Sue Hood |
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11/12/2014 Thursday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT: Semantic gravity |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
J R Martin |
SFL: revisiting mode |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
Sue Hood |
Paralanguage in lecturing |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Talia Gill |
Semantic density, semantic gravity in images |
17:00-17:15 |
Break |
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17:15-18:15 |
Play performance: Reading Mandela – genre pedagogy versus ancient rhetoric |
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12/12/2014 Friday
8:30-10:00 |
Karl Maton |
LCT cosmology: epistemological/axiological |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Sue Hood |
Appraisal in academic discourse |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:30-15:00 |
David Rose |
Regulative 'gaze'/instructional 'gaze' & pedagogy |
15:00-15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30-17:00 |
Talia Gill |
Intermodality in animated imaging |
17:15 |
Final dinner |
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