Social Semiotics & Social Justice: ESFLC 2020 comes to Sheffield

I am delighted to be hosting the next European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2020) at Sheffield Hallam University from 1st to 3rd July 2020.

Our theme is "Social Semiotics and Social Justice". I view SFL as providing a significant, rigorous framework for providing an analysis of discourse that can expose embedded uses of social power. SFL has been adapted in critical discourse analysis, educational linguistics and multimodal analysis and so I really hope that this conference will provide a suitable venue for all of these voices to come together and speak to each other in common cause.
Our plenary speakers, Tom Bartlett, David Block, Ruth Harman & Theo van Leeuwen, will all examine our theme from different perspectives.
We are online as a website here: https://www.esflc2020.org.uk/ which includes the Call for Papers, Guidelines for Submissions, more information about Sheffield, and much more.
We are accepting submissions from here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esflc2020
You can contact use through email: esflc[at]shu.ac.uk 
And you can catch up with the latest news by following @esflc2020
I hope I can welcome you personally to Sheffield next July.

Farewell CADAAD 2018

Thank you to the lovely people at Aalborg University, Denmark for hosting a fine conference. The city and its people were very welcoming and offered an excellent location for CADAAD 2018. We eagerly await news for the next venue - which is likely to be outside Europe for the first time.
The programme contained plenty of interesting papers and lots of fascinating research projects. Main topics included healthcare, education, identity, the language of Brexit, and issues of methodology. The conference offered papers of a very high standard and most parallel sessions required difficult choices to be made of what to see and what to miss.
The plenary sessions were informative and thought-provoking (er, with one exception) and fortunately all of them are available from here. Here is a small sample:

Finally, here is the presentation that I was lucky enough to share with some of the delegates. I am glad to say that it generated a lot of questions (and not all of them supportive in nature). Thank you Aalborg.