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Invitation to all faculty, staff and students
*/School of Linguistics and Language Studies /*
*Colloquium on Genre Studies*
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*Keynote address*
*Genre: A social semiotic perspective*
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*Keynote speaker*
*Professor J. R. Martin, Personal Chair,*
*University of Sydney, Australia*
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*Tuesday, February 16, 2010*
*10:00 a.m. -- 3:00 p.m.*
*Room 2017 Dunton Tower*
/ (Light refreshments will be provided)/
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*/A few short presentations on different approaches to the study of
non-literary genres will follow the keynote address. The rest of the
time will be taken by an open discussion.
Keynote address
Martin & Rose (Genre Relations 2008) develops a perspective on genre in
which genres are made of meanings and cultures are conceived as systems
of genres. In this presentation Professor Martin will consider the
implications of a perspective of this kind, for how we describe genres
and relate them to one another. By way of exemplification he will look
both synthetically and analytically at two or three short texts. He will
also try and address concerns genre theorists have about what is missing
from an all encompassing social semiotic perspective of this kind (the
things called 'mind,' 'social context,' 'activity' and so on in the
literature).
J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics (Personal Chair) at the
University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include systemic
theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre,
multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focusing on English and
Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of
educational linguistics, forensic linguistics, and social semiotics.
Recent publications include The Language of Evaluation (with Peter
White) Palgrave 2005; Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy (Edited with Fran
Christie) Continuum 2007; and with David Rose, a second edition of
Working with Discourse Continuum 2007, and a book on genre Genre
Relations: Mapping culture Equinox 2008. He has recently completed a 2nd
edition of the 1997 functional grammar workbook, with Clare Painter and
Christian Matthiessen, Deploying Functional Grammar Commercial Press,
Beijing 2010 and an edited collection (with Monika Bednarek), New
Discourse on Language Continuum 2010. Professor Martin was elected a
fellow the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 and awarded a
Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003.
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