ISFC40 Pre-Congress Institute Closes Today

Last updated:2013-07-12

The last day workshops of the ISFC40 Pre-Congress Institute were taught by Emeritus Professor Robin Fawcett from Cardiff University, Professor He Wei from University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Professor Erich Steiner from Saarland University respectively.

Professor Fawcett and Professor He Wei focused on the Cardiff Model of language and its use. Starting with a simple example, Professor Fawcett first introduced the main components of an SFG within the Cardiff Model of language and its use, and then explored the relationship between them. Professor He Wei illustrated the use of a version of the Cardiff Grammar that has been adapted for Chinese, showing how it helps to solve syntactic problems in Chinese.


Professor Steiner’s workshop is about Varieties of English, Language for Special Purposes and Translation, which centered on the structure of vocabulary and terminology, information density, grammatical metaphor, and technicality of texts in general. The session was interactive and involved participants in pre-translational text analyses of English texts from various domains.


The 40^th International Systemic Functional Congress will officially start next Monday, 15 July.

Written by: Qiu Qing
Photographer: Wang Shaoli