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From: Yaegan Doran <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 11:58
Subject: [asflanet] FW: Friday Seminar
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Hi all,
Just a reminder about this arvo’s Friday seminar. 😊
Yaegan
*From: *Yaegan Doran <yaegan.doran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Date: *Monday, 11 October 2021 at 2:20 pm
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*Subject: *Friday Seminar
Hello all!
This week’s Sydney Friday seminar is from Xiaoqin Wu, *4pm Sydney time
Friday 15th October.*
Although lockdown has just wrapped up for most of Sydney, it hasn’t yet for
the universities, so we’ll still be online, but hopefully we will be able
to come together face to face again in not too long.
The link is: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84093744071
All welcome. Below is the abstract and the schedule for the semester.
Yaegan
*Modeling rhythm as a multifaceted construct: A social semiotic
understanding of rhythm in space *
Xiaoqin Wu, UNSW, Sydney
Rhythm has been assigned a great significance both in everyday life and in
academic research, especially in studies of temporal structures and
processes. It has been claimed as a basic mode of being (You 1994), and
people even go as far as to say, “I rhythmize, therefore I am” (Jousse
1974: 175). However, in the current modelings of rhythm, there is an
over-emphasis of the temporal and an under-emphasis of the spatial in
rhythm analysis. In light of this, the presentation provides a multifaceted
theorization of rhythm that synthesizes two complementary accounts (e.g.
Lefebvre 1996, 2004; Van Leeuwen 1985, 1992, 2005). This model presents the
ways rhythm functions to make semiotic meaning that symbolically
articulates social meaning (Hasan 1989), which accounts for the body on the
near side and power on the far side. Under this theorization, space and
time are considered together in the exploration of rhythm configured as
*spatial-temporal* experiences.
By contextualizing space and time to the design and the use of a so-called
‘Active Learning Classroom’ in film lessons in the tertiary settings, this
presentation conducts a nuanced multimodal rhythm analysis of co-instantiated
speech (Halliday 1970; Martin & Rose 2007) and movement (Han 2022; He 2020;
McMurtrie 2016; Ngo, Hood et al 2021) patterns in teacher-student embodied
interactions. Through the analysis, this presentation exposes how the
institutional hegemonic class attempts to reinforce its power and control
via inscribing regular rhythms in the designed space, thus appropriating
the space and disciplining the body to perform confirmatively, and how
teachers and students adapt or even resist this appropriation and
regularization via imprinting their own beats in the performed space. In
doing so, this presentation develops systemic ways of analyzing, describing
and interpreting the multifaceted nature of rhythm by attending to its
material, semiotic and social sides. By coupling space and time, this
presentation also contributes to a temporal understanding of space and a
spatial understanding of time, which is particularly useful in
investigating the patterns of multiscalar temporality. In doing so, it
ultimately contributes to an understanding of the ways space participates
in the production and reproduction of social relations (Ravelli & McMurtrie
2016).
*References *
Halliday, M.A.K. (1970). *A course in spoken English: Intonation*. London:
Oxford University Press.
Han, J. (2022). A social semiotic framework for music-dance correspondence.
PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Hasan, R. (1985/1989). Linguistics, language and verbal Art. New York:
Oxford University Press.
He, Y. F. (2020). Animation as a semiotic mode: Construing knowledge in
science animated videos. PhD thesis, University of Sydney.
Jousse, M. (1974). *L'anthropologie du geste*. Paris: Gallimard.
Lefebvre, H. (1996). *Writings on Cities *(ed. by E. Koffman & E. Lebas).
Oxford: Blackwell.
Lefebvre, H. (2004). *Rhythm analysis: space, time and everyday life*.
London: Continuum.
Martin, J. R. & Rose, D. (2007). *Working with discourse: Meaning beyond
the clause*. London: Continuum.
McMurtrie, R. (2016). *The semiotics of movement in space*. London & New
York: Routledge.
Ngo, T., Hood, S., Martin J.R., Painter, C. Smith, B. & M. Zappavigna.
(2021).* Modeling paralanguage from the perspective of Systemic Functional
Semiotics: Theory and Application.* London: Bloomsbury.
Ravelli, L., & McMurtrie, R. (2016). *Multimodality in the built
environment: Spatial discourse analysis*. New York: Routledge.
Van Leeuwen, T. (1985). Rhythmic structure of the film text. In T.A. van
Dijk (ed). *Discourse and communication – New approaches to the analysis of
mass media discourse and communication*. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Van Leeuwen, T. (1992). Rhythm and social context. In P. Tench (ed). *Studies
in systemic phonology*. London: Frances Pinter.
Van Leeuwen, T. (2005). *Introducing social semiotics: An introductory
textbook*. London: Routledge.
You, H. L. (1994). Defining rhythm: Aspects of an anthropology of
rhythm. *Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry*,18, 361-384.
*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
Chinese "Secret History of the Mongols"
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*
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*Fascism for a worthy cause is still fascism.*
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My Linguistics Sites
Factoring Out Structure <https://yaegandoran.blogspot.com/>
Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register & Genre
<http://discourse-semantics.blogspot.com.au/> (凌遲
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi>)
Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause
<http://workingwithdiscourse.blogspot.com.au/> (凌遲
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi>)
The Cardiff Grammar <http://cardiff-grammar.blogspot.com.au/> (凌遲
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi>)
Thoughts That Cross My Mind
<http://thoughts-that-cross-my-mind.blogspot.com.au/>
The Thought Occurs <http://thethoughtoccurs.blogspot.com.au/>…
Thoughts That Didn't Occur <http://master-bateman.blogspot.com.au/>…
Informing Thoughts <http://informingthoughts.blogspot.com.au/>
Systemic Functional Linguistics <http://systemictheory.blogspot.com/>
Sysfling <http://sysfling.blogspot.com.au/>
Sys-Func <http://sys-func.blogspot.com.au/>
Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
<http://attitude-in-sfl.blogspot.com.au/>
Martin's Model Of Paralanguage <https://sflparalanguage.blogspot.com/>
Lexis As Most Local Context <https://lexisasmostlocalcontext.blogspot.com/>
Making Sense Of Meaning <https://meta-sfl-theory.blogspot.com/>
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