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17th Conference of the Latin American Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Latin America seems to be gradually leaving behind the worst of the pandemic and its devastating effects. Our daily life -at the individual, social and professional level- is not the same as it was before 2020. The pandemic has deepened and crudely manifested the socioeconomic and educational disparities in Latin America, and this is a call for action: it urges us to put our areas of study, our socially committed appliable theory, at the service of overcoming these problems. It is time we asked ourselves what we have learnt from these crises and what role language can play as we adapt to new contexts, new environments and new ways of relating to one another. At this conference, we will have the opportunity to reflect upon and discuss the lessons we have learned from the personal, communal and global crises we have been through.

Back in 1990, Halliday invited us to reflect about the relationship between language and reality:

“Language is at the same time a part of reality, a shaper of reality, and a metaphor for reality” (Halliday, 1990)

He also invited us to consider our role as linguists:

“We cannot transform language; it is people’s acts of meaning that do that. But we can observe these acts of meaning as they happen around us, and try to chart the currents and patterns of change.”

From a global perspective, still relevant for the world and -in particular- for Latin America, in his foundational article for Ecolinguistics Halliday highlighted that some of the “things” we’ve created -classism, growthism, destruction of species, pollution and the like- are relevant problems not only for biologists and ecologists, but for linguists and language educators as well.

“... I do not suggest for one moment that we hold the key. But we ought to be able to write the instructions for its use.”

This is our call, with the conviction that language does not just reflect but rather it creates and re-creates reality.

ALSFAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chair: José David Herazo (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Deputy Chair: Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes (Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brasil)
Secretary 1: Daniel Rodríguez (UNAM, México)
Secretary 2: Julio César Valerdi Zárate (UNAM, México)
Moderator of ALSFAL-list and ALSFAL-ec: Gillian Moss (UNINORTE, Colombia)
ALSFAL Web managers: Valeria Iensen Bortoluzzi (Universidad Franciscana - UFN, Brasil), Erick Callegaro Correio (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil)
Translation Assistants: Tatiana Becerra (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

México: Natalia Ignatieva (UAM), Laura Hernández (UAT)
Caribe: Mireya Cisneros (UTP), Jorge Mizuno (UNINORTE)
Pacífico: Ingrid Westhoff (UNAB), Magaly Arcela (PUC, Perú)
Argentina Centro y Norte: Patricia Meehan (UNC), María Belén Oliva (UNC)
Argentina Cuyo y Patagonia: Cristina Boccia (UNCuyo), Miriam Germani (UNLPam)
Argentina Buenos Aires, Litoral y Uruguay: Fabián Mónaco (UNL), Laura Flores
Brasil: Nordeste: Wellington Mendes (UERN), Danielle Barbosa Lins de Almeida (Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB)
Brasil Sudeste: Alda Maria Coimbra (CPII-PROPGPEC), Renato Caixeta da Silva (CEFET-MG)
Brasil Centro-Oeste y Norte: Edna Cristina Muniz da Silva (Universidad de Brasilia), Wagner Rodrigues Silva (Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT))
Brasil Sur: Raymundo Olioni (FURG), Lucia Rottava (UFRGS)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Cristina Boccia (UNCuyo)
Mauro Cóccaro (UNLPam)
Laura Dorado (UNCuyo)
Miriam Germani (UNLPam)
Samiah Hassan (UNCuyo)
Laura Hlavacka (UNCuyo)
Raquel Miranda (UNLPam)
Emilia Moreschi (UNCuyo)
Viviana Nardechia (UNCuyo)
Ana Paez (UNLPam)
Paola Parra (UNCuyo)
Lucía Rivas (UNLPam)
Silvia Spinelli (UNLPam)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Arancibia, Cristina (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Ariztimuño, Lilian (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)
María Celina Barbeito (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto)
Baeza Duffy, Patricia (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Barletta, Norma (Universidad del Norte Colombia)
Becerra Posada, Tatiana (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Borsinger, Ann (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina)
Bortoluzzi, Valeria Iensen (Franciscan University, Santa María, Brasil)
Caixeta Da Silva, Renato (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Calle, Luzkarime (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
Callegaro Correa, Erick Kalder (Universidade Franciscana, Brasil)
Calvo, Ana (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
Canale, Germán (Universidad de la República Uruguay)
Cardinali, Renata (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina)
Chamorro Miranda, Diana J. (Universidad de Norte, Colombia)
Coimbra Aguilar Maciel, Alda Maria (Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa, Extensão e Cultura - PROPGPEC - Rio de Janeiro)
Colombi, Cecilia (University of California Davis)
Estevez de Lima Lopez, Rodrigo (UNICamp)
Figueiredo, Giacomo (Universidad de Ouro Preto, Brasil)
Flores, Laura (Consejo de Formación en Educación ANEP, Uruguay)
Fuzer, Cristiane (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)
García Montes, Paula Andrea (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Gauna, Belén (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)
Gonçalves Segundo, Paulo Roberto (Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brasil)
González, Laura (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto)
González, María Laura (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)
González, María Susana (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Herazo, José David (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Hernandez Ramirez, Laura Aurora (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México)
Ignatieva, Natalia (Universidad Autónoma de México, México)
Jimenez, Guillermo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Mancuzzo, Patrizia (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Manghi, Dominique (Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
Matzenbacher Pinton, Francieli (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil)
Meehan, Patricia (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
Mirallas, Carolina (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
Miranda, Raquel (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)
Mónaco, Fabián (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
Morales Escobar, Ibeth del Rosario (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Moss, Gillian (Universidad del Norte Colombia)
Moyano, Estela (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Universidad de Flores, Argentina)
Muguiro, Natalia (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)
Muniz da Silva, Edna Cristina (Universidade de Brasilia, Brasil)
Natale, Lucía (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)
Navarro, Federico (Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile)
Ninin, Maia Otilia (Universidade Estadual Paulista y Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brasil)
Oliva, Belén (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
Oteiza, Teresa (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Pacagnini, Ana (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro- Sede Andina)
Pagano, Adriana (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Panza, Carolina (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina)
Pascual, Mariana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Peinado Méndez, Arnaldo de Jesús (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)
Perales Escudero, Moisés Damián (Universidad de Quintana Roo, México)
Pérez, Sara (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)
Picchio, Romina (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina)
Quiroz, Beatriz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Rabuske Hendges, Graciela (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil)
Rodrigues Silva, Wagner (Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brasil)
Rodríguez-Vergara, Daniel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Rottava, Lucía (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Salete Florek, Cristiane (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Scotta Cabral, Sara (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil)
Scotti Scherer, Anelise (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Soliveres, María Amalia (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)
Souza, Medianeira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Valerdi Zárate, Julio César (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Vian, Orlando (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil)
Vidal, Margarita (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Zamudio, Victoria (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Westhoff, Ingrid (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)
Wiefling, Fernanda (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina)
Zuppa, Lucía (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)

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