ASFLA INC offers a range of small grants and prizes to SFL-researchers.
1. SMALL GRANTS
Following up on the discussion at the ASFLA AGM 2025, the small grants scheme will be closed.
ASFLA has ongoing financial commitments, such as the Halliday prize, the Hasan prize, the subscription to Language, Context and Text for members, website cost, LLEN and CHASS. These costs eat into ASFLA savings in no-income years.
For ASFLA to be able to continue supporting symposia, workshops and SIGS, as well as PhDs, the ASFLA community has agreed that it is strategically more prudent to close the Small Grants Scheme, which focused on kick-starting research projects in systemic functional linguistics, and redivert funds.
ASFLA can still be approached for and will continue to support events, workshops and provide seed funding to community projects, such as LLEN. ASFLA also intends to use funds for to support PhDs to attend ASFLA conferences.
2. RUQAIYA HASAN PRIZE
The Ruqaiya Hasan Prize is awarded biennially by ASFLA INC to an emerging scholar whose recent work engages deeply with Professor Hasan’s topical and methodological concerns. The prize aims to honour the life and work of Professor Hasan and foster its ongoing legacy, as well as encourage excellence in the research of emerging scholars working with Systemic Functional Linguistics.
The prize is awarded at the ASFLA INC conference. The winner receives $500, and an opportunity to give a named presentation at an ASFLA INC event.
2019 WINNER OF THE RUQAIYA HASAN PRIZE IS DAVID KELLOGG of Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea.
Details on how to nominate for the next Hasan Prize will be posted here when announced.
3. M.A.K. HALLIDAY PRIZE
The M.A.K. Halliday Prize is an international book prize awarded biennially for the most significant scholarly monograph recently published in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is named in memory of M.A.K. Halliday, who was the leading figure in the development of SFL theory. The Prize is open to scholars working in theoretical, descriptive or applied fields. The principal criterion for success will be evidence of excellence and significance in furthering and developing the work of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
The Regulations for the M.A.K. Halliday Prize can be found here.
The winner of the 2025 Halliday prize is Tereza Oteiza for her work What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History, University of Toronto Press.
THE INAUGURAL WINNERS OF THE M.A.K. HALLIDAY PRIZE 2023 ARE THU NGO, SUE HOOD, JIM MARTIN, CLAIRE PAINTER, BRAD SMITH AND MICHELE ZAPPAVIGNA for their book Modelling paralanguage from the perspective of Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and application. London: UK: Bloomsbury. 2022.
The International Selection Committee for the 2025 prize is:
| Region | Member |
| Africa | Ralph Adendorff (Chair) Rhodes University, South Africa |
| Asia | Emi Emilia Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesian University of Education) |
| China | Miao Xingwei, 北京师范大学 (Beijing Normal University, China) |
| Australia | Louise Ravelli The University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Latin America | Natalia Ignatieva Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) |
| North America | Meg Gebhard University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA |
| Europe | Marta Filipe Alexandre Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal) |
The 2025 Prize is open to books published in 2023 and 2024.
For those wishing to nominate a book, please find the nomination form here. The deadline for nominations is the 28th May.
All nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Selection Committee Ralph Adendorff (r.adendorff@ru.ac.za) who will respond with a confirmation of receipt.
The award will be announced at the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference at The University of South Australia in December.
The timeline for the award is as follows: Nominations Open 28th April
Nominations Close 28th May
Shortlist announced End June
Announcement of 2025 MAK Halliday Prize Winner 3rd-5th December (at the 2025 ASFLA conference held at The University of South Australia)
We welcome all nominations of books focused on Systemic Functional Linguistics (broadly defined), and encourage everyone to share this notice widely in their networks.
For any inquiries about the prize, please contact Yaegan Doran (yaegan.doran@acu.edu.au) and Ralph Adendorff (r.adendorff@ru.ac.za).