Hi all!
Just a reminder about this arvo’s Friday seminar by Rosemary Huisman – details
below.
See you all there!
Yaegan
From: Yaegan Doran <Yaegan.Doran@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, 4 April 2022 at 11:05 am
To: "asflanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <asflanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sys-func
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Subject: Friday Seminar
Hello all!
This week’s Sydney SFL Friday seminar is from Rosemary Huisman – abstract below.
We are to face at Sydney Uni, from 4-5:30pm Fridays in the Oriental Room of the
Quad at Sydney Uni, followed by our regular catch up at the pub.
We will also be livestreaming each seminar at:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84002530042
(If you cannot make face to face or the live stream and you wish to see the
talk, please contact the speaker who will have access to a recording).
Below is the abstract for this week’s talk, and the schedule for the semester.
If you can, it’d be wonderful to see you all in person!
Yaegan
Temporal meanings and SFL worlds of experience
Rosemary Huisman
Later this year, Routledge is publishing my book, Narrative Worlds and the
Texture of Time, a Social-Semiotic Perspective. The general blurb - no doubt
more intended to be impressive than informative - says:
This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a
new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities
and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human –
and non-human – experience, woven together (the ‘texture of time’) in the one
narrative.
The model of language referred to is that of SFL, especially as developed in
the publications of M.A.K. Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen. The model
of time, of different temporalities in natural levels of complexity, is that of
J.T. Fraser. Both Halliday and Fraser are influenced by Gerald Edelman's model
of the brain, which links human consciousness with the development of language
and temporal awareness. And for most narrative theorists, narrative is, at
least, the way humans organize their awareness of time.
In this paper I focus on the contribution of SFL to the
development of the narrative model. (In the book, the narrative model developed
is then used to compare the "texture of time" in English literary texts of
different historical periods.)
Date
Presenter
Topic
11th March
Yaegan Doran
Sundanese nominal groups: Text and textual meaning
18th March
Annabelle Lukin
Masculine power in international war law: a (preliminary) linguistic inquiry
25th March
Joshua Han
Examining social media 'content creation' from a social semiotic perspective
through a multimodal rhythmic analysis of a TikTok video
1st April
Mary Macken-Horarik
Building a knowledge structure in school English: Troubles and (potential)
triumphs
8th April
Rosemary Huisman
Temporal meanings and SFL worlds of experience
Usyd Mid-semester break
29th April
David Rose
Four ways to tell a story
6th May
Alison Moore & Aurélie Mallet
#RecoverSouthCoast: how can SFL/SFS inform the study of social media use for
rebuilding community after bushfire and other disasters
13th May
Dragana Stosic &
Sally Humphrey
Negotiating the validity of health information on social media
20th May
Georgia Carr
Doing the heavy lifting: Technicalising and iconising attitude in sex education
27th May
Len Unsworth
Analysing Affiliation in Infographics for High School Science
