About the Congress

Systemic Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (LSF) explains how language is used, and its characteristics according to its uses. According to Halliday, language has evolved to meet human needs, thus, language characteristics are dependent on the uses humans have given to language. From this, perspective, language is a social-semiotic resource. The linguistic system provides speakers/users of language with meaning-making potential. However, these resources are not equally distributed in society as a stratified society gives differential access to semiotic resources. From a social-semiotic perspective, language does not only reflect, but is complicit in building social structure. This position acknowledges the power of language in the social reproduction and transformation processes.Therefore, linguists’ work has social implications, and demands a commitment at an ideological level.

Directive Committee ALSFAL - Term 2020-2023

President: José David Herazo (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia)

Vicepresident: Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil)

Secretary 1: Daniel Rodríguez (UNAM, México)

Secretary 2: Julio César Valerdi Zárate (UNAM, México)

Responsable for general discussion list (ALSFAL-lista) and committee discussion list (ALSFAL-ec): Gillian Moss (UNINORTE, Colombia)

Responsables for blog and website: Valeria Iensen Bortoluzzi (Universidade Franciscana - UFN, Brasil)

Erick Callegaro Correio (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil)

Translation assistant: 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 and Patagonia: Cristina Boccia (UNCuyo), Miriam Germani (UNLPam)

Argentina Buenos Aires, Litoral and 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 and 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)

SFL Associations’ websites

International SFL Association: Sitio web

Asociación dede América Latina: Sitio web

North American SFL Association: Facebook

Organizing Committee

Mariana Achugar, Facultad de Información y Comunicación, UdelaR

Laura Flores, Consejo de Formación en Educación, ANEP

Abstractsand program: Bruno Marín, Martina Fernández, Valentina Perini, Lucía Arroyo 
Communications: Leticia Gambetta, Valentina Perini, Lucía Arroyo
Interpretation and translation: Ana Laura Márquez, Leticia Gambetta
Logistics of the live congress: Serrana Echanagusía, Andrea Rivero 
Pre-conference institute and communication with participants:  Cecilia Prieto María, Helena Bugna

Academic Committee
Abarca Millán, Erika - University of Pittburgh, EEUU
Anglada, Liliana - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Arancibia, Cristina - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Arcela, Magaly - PUC, Perú
Baeza, Patricia - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Barbosa Lins de Almeida, Danielle - Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB
Barletta Manjarrés, Norma - UNNorte
Boccia, Cristina - UNCuyo
Bortoluzzi, Valeria Iensen - Universidad Franciscana - UFN, Brasil
Brisk, María - Boston College, Boston MA
Caixeta da Silva, Renato - CEFET-MG
Callegaro, Erick - Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia
Canale, Germán - Facultad de Humanidades, UdelaR, Uruguay
Cardozo Gaibisso, Lourdes - ORT, Uruguay
Cisneros, Mireya - UTP
Coimbra, Alda Maria - CPII-PROPGPEC
Colombi, Cecilia - Universidad de California Davis, EEUU
Esteves de Lima Lopes , Rodrigo - Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
Ferández, Amparo - Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Fernández, Loretta - University of Pittsburgh, EEUU
Gaido, Angélica - Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina
Gambetta, Leticia - FIC, UDelaR
Germani, Miriam - UN La Pampa
Hassan, Samiah - UN Cuyo
Herazo, José David - Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia
Hernández Ramírez, Laura Aurora - Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México
Hlavacka, Laura - UN Cuyo
Ignatieva, Natalia - UAM, México
Luz Maturana, Carmen - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Manghi, Dominique - Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Meehan, Patricia - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Mendes, Wellington - UERN
Mizuno, Jorge - UNINORTE, Colombia
Mónaco, Fabián - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina
Moss, Gillian - UNINORTE, Colombia
Motta Roth, Desirée - Universidad Federal de Santa María, Brasil
Moyano, Estela - Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Universidad de Flores, Argentina
Muniz da Silva, Edna Cristina - Universidad de Brasilia, Brasil
Navarro, Federico - Universidad de O´Higgins
Olioni, Raymundo - FURG
Oliva, María Belén - UN Córdoba, Argentina
Oteíza, Teresa - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pascual, Mariana - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Perales Escudero, Moisés - Universidad de Quintana Roo, México
Pérez, Sara - Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina
Quiroz, Beatriz - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ramírez, Andrés - Florida Atlantic Univeristy
Rodrigues Silva, Wagner - Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)
Rodríguez, Daniel - UNAM, México
Rottava, Lucia - UFRGS, Brasil
Schleppegrell, Mary - School of Education, University of Michigan, MI
Scotta Cabral, Sara - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS
Valerdi Zárate, Julio César - UNAM, México
Vian Jr, Orlando - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Vidal Lizama, Margarita - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Westhoff, Ingrid - UNAB, Chile
Zavala, Virginia - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú
Zullo, Julia - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Streaming and virtual meetings platforms: Ramón Silveira 
Web page design: Pierina De Mori 
Conference Logo design: Juan Paez