Hi all,
Just a remainder about this arvo’s Friday seminar by Helen Caple and Ping Tian.
Details below.
See you all there!
Yaegan
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Hello all!
This week’s Sydney Friday seminar is from Helen Caple and Ping Tian, 4pm Sydney
time Friday 17th September.
With lockdown happening at the moment in Sydney, we’ll be online, but hopefully
toward the end of semester we will be able to come together face to face again.
The link is: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84093744071
All welcome. Below is the abstract and the schedule for the semester.
Yaegan
Analysing the representation of diversity in early childhood picture books:
Challenges for multimodal discourse analysis
Helen Caple and Ping Tian
Abstract: In this seminar, we consider some of the challenges one might face in
analysing the representation of diversity in early childhood picture books.
Picture books are significant for the cultural messages and values they convey
about society, and for helping children learn about their world. How diverse
that world is impacts on a child’s sense of belonging and inclusion. In our
analysis, we focus on picture books that have been shortlisted for the
Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Early Childhood Book of the Year
award (2001–2020).
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Date
Presenter
Topic
13th August
Jim Martin
Construing entities: types of structure
20th August
Ed McDonald
Back to the future: Descriptive adequacy in Halliday’s The Language of the
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27th August
Dragana Stosic
An axial perspective on Serbian nominal groups
3rd September
Yaegan Doran
Factoring out structure: Nuclearity, linearity and iteration
10th September
Geoff Williams
Semantic variation theory as appliable linguistics: Exploring contexts for
melanoma treatment.
17th September
Helen Caple & Ping Tian
Analysing the representation of diversity in early childhood picture books:
Challenges for multimodal discourse analysis
24th September
Mary Macken-Horarik
Building a knowledge structure in school English: Troubles and (potential)
triumphs
Mid-semester break
(ASFLA)
8th October
Sally Humphrey & Dragana Stosic
Towards a social semiotic perspective on Health Literacy
15th October
Xiaoqin Wu
Articulating social discourse and enacting spatial pedagogy: A multifaceted
understanding of rhythm and space
22nd October
Anna Crane
Interpersonal meaning in Gija: contributing understandings to revitalisation
programs
29th October
Bev Derewianka
Recontextualising a pedagogical grammar from theory to classroom practice
5th November
Alison Moore
#Recover South Coast: social media in bushfire recovery
12th November
Thu Ngo
Functions of film sounds from the systemic functional semiotics perspective
Y. J. DORAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
