About

The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) was established in 1995 to bring together SFL scholars around Australia into a formally recognised organisation that helps to promote and support scholarship in SFL. In 2022, ASFLA became an Incorporated entity and is now known as ASFLA INC.

Objectives

The main objectives of ASFLA INC are:

  1. To promote scholarship and research in Systemic Functional Linguistics, its application and related fields.
  2. To disseminate the results of research in Systemic Functional Linguistics, its applications and related fields through publications such as journals, books or any other means.
  3. To organise an annual national conference around Systemic Functional linguistic theory, its applications and related fields.
  4. To support projects for public benefit aimed at advancing education and public debate by creating courses, programs, summer schools, building and maintaining scholarly collections and archives, and any other appropriate activities which extend knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics, its applications and related fields including but not limited to students, scholars, researchers, teachers, policy makers and other professionals, and the general public.
  5. To support meetings/conferences/workshops and other outreach initiatives related to Systemic Functional Linguistics, its applications and related fields as these are organised in different parts of the country and internationally.
  6. To maintain the relationship with the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association and to establish collaborative relations with any other professional body or group with related interests.

The ASFLA INC constitution can be found here.

ASFLA INC Executive

President: Shoshana Dreyfus
Vice President & Membership Secretary: David Caldwell
Treasurer: Trish Weekes
Minutes Secretary: Sonja Molnar
Communications Officer: Lorenzo Logi
Public Officer: Yaegan Doran

ASFLA INC Committee

Alison Moore – Chair, Ruqaiya Hasan Prize

Yaegan Doran – Pro tem Chair, Halliday & Hasan Archive Working Group

State and Territory Representatives

QLD: Damon Thomas
NSW: Geogia Carr
ACT: Penny Wheeler
VIC: Sonja Molnar
WA: Anne Thwaite
SA: Eszter Szenes
NT: Awni Etaywe
TAS: Vinh To

Social Media Team

Laura Chen, Jiayang Hu, Thien An Tran and Simon Jing Voon Yap