XVI Congress of the Latin American Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Language Studies in Times of Systemic Collapse:

Building Alternatives through Education and Research

The systemic collapse, manifested in global and regional health, economic and environmental crises in Latin America, shows the effects of a system that is reaching its limits. Suffering and social, environmental and economic crises are manifested in growing economic inequality, increased disease and authoritarianism. This multi-crisis situation has also demonstrated the centrality of solidarity, mutual help and care. In this context, education, understood as a process that transcends educational institutions, and communication are spaces that allow the development of resilient forms of organization with social justice in order to build horizons of possibility and utopia. Faced with collapse and despair, SFL offers us a perspective with dialectical awareness, interdependence and intersubjectivity, in which language and semiotic systems reveal the subjects in interaction and at the same time materialize the possibilities of social and cultural transformation. Semiotic work emerges as a tool for the construction of alternatives.

Those of us who are dedicated to education and research from the studies of language and communication from SFL, not only assume theory as an analytical tool, but also with its seal of social commitment, so we can contribute to develop a prospective analysis of the present and propose forms of social organization to satisfy the needs in this new context.

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