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Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality Alsop, S. and Gardner, S. Published version deposited in CURVE July 2014 – updated with the revised edition December 2014 Original citation & hyperlink: Alsop, S. and Gardner, S. (2014) Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality: Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop. Coventry, UK: Coventry University. Additional note: Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic functional linguistics conference and workshop. Held: 1-3 July 2013. This publication contains extended abstracts only. Copyright © and Moral Rights are retained by the author(s) and/ or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. CURVE is the Institutional Repository for Coventry University http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop: 1 - 3 July 2013, Coventry University, UK Edited by Siân Alsop and Sheena Gardner Department of English and Languages, Coventry University 2014 Some texts are born digital Some achieve digitality And others have digitality thrust upon them (cf. Twelfth Night) Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality. Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop: 1st to 3rd July 2013, Coventry University, UK. Edited by Siân Alsop and Sheena Gardner, Department of English and Languages (DEL), Coventry University, UK. Published in 2014 by DEL, Coventry University. Revised edition, November 2014. © Copyright lies with the authors, 2014. The moral right of each author to be identified as the author of their paper is asserted. All rights reserved by the authors. ISBN 978 18460005 15 The aim of this conference was to explore Systemic Functional Linguistics insights into language use in today’s digital age. Following the SFL proclivity for trinocular perspectives, the conference theme was realized through papers that used SFL to analyze new types of text that were born (or conceived) digitally, such as blogs, tweets and facebook; through texts that achieve digitality, being digitally conceived manifestations of established practices, such as giving medical advice, mourning, and teacher education; and through papers that had digitality thrust upon them in that new digital methods including corpus tools were used to provide new perspectives in SFL analysis of areas such as register, ellipsis and research articles. The conference themes were bound together through three plenary presentations: • Susan Hunston: Observing Texts Digitally: At the Interface of Lexis and Grammar • Gunther Kress: Writing, Texts and the New Media in a Social Semiotic Multimodal Frame • Michele Zappavigna: Social Media, Ambient Affiliation, and Identity The references to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night were extended by a trip to see Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. The extended abstracts submitted for inclusion in these Proceedings provide an overview of the richness of the research presented. They include 37 abstracts from 55 authors working in 18 different countries. Contents Index of extended abstracts 1 Index of author-provided keywords 3 Index of authors 4 Extended abstracts 5 Most frequently cited publications 150 Acknowledgements 151 ESFLA Committee 151 ESFLCW24 Scientific Review Committee 151 ESFLCW24 Coventry University Organizing Committee 151 ESFLCW24 Participants and Session Chairs 152 A digital view of author-provided keywords 153 Index of extended abstracts ARANCIBIA, Cristina and MONTECINO, Lésmer. Identity, Inclusion and Exclusion of Social Actors in Blog Posts to Comment Editorials and Opinion Columns of Online Chilean Cyber Newspapers 5 BANKS, David. Approaching the Journal des Sçavans 1665-1695 8 BEN-AARON, Diana. "Like Being in a Rock Concert": Online Appraisal at a Startup Pitch Event 11 BENSON, James, GREAVES, William, BAER, Amelia, WONG, Maria and YANG, Meng. A Side-by-Side Comparison of Interpersonal Semantics and Interactive Alignment in Conversation 14 BERRY, Margaret. On Describing Contexts of Situation: a Theoretical View 17 BLOOR, Meriel. The Digital Surgery: The Language of Online Medical Information on Terminal Illness 20 CAMBRIA, Mariavita. “Making one’s own news”: Readers’ News-Making Potential in Online Newspapers 22 CLARKE, Ben. Fast food grammar? Extending progressive aspect to mental processes to construe currency 25 CRESSWELL, Andy. How Right is Winter's Discontent: Vocabulary Three, Four, and Upwards in Corpora Tagged for Logical Relations 30 CUMMINGS, MicHael. Interpreting Method of Development within a Large Corpus 34 DRURY, Helen. Moving Online to Teach Academic Writing in Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice 37 FARHADI SHAMSABADI, Azita. Texts in Weblog 42 FONTAINE, Lise and ALDRIDGE, MicHelle. Exploring choice in digital language production 46 FRYER, Daniel Lees. Story of an Image: Notes on the Recontextualization of a Digital Research Article Figure 50 GARCIA-RIAZA, Blanca. Science Popularizations of The Guardian Newspaper: Transitivity Analysis of Language Reports in an Electronic Corpus 57 GLUCK, Sandra and FINE, JonatHan. A Systemic Analysis of Non-related Responses and Their Preceding Questions in the Autism Spectrum 60 GUO, Songdan, Nancy. The Matter and Meanings of Visual Recourses in Language Textbooks: A Contrastive Study of English Textbooks Used in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland 66 HARJU, Anu. Alignment With Imagined Community, or Imagined Alignment in Anonymity? 70 HILLIER, Hilary. On Describing Contexts of Situation: A Participant's View 73 HUNSTON, Susan. Observing Texts Digitally: At the Interface of Lexis and Grammar 77 KALTENBACHER, Martin. Hypertext's Return to Linearity: The Case of Hotel Websites 83 KARAGEVREKIS, Mersini. A Multimodal Analysis of an Online University Lecture in EAP/ESP 87 KRESS, GuntHer. Writing, Texts and the New Media in a Social Semiotic Multimodal Frame 91 LANDER, Jo. Mode Matters: Recontextualising Academic Essays or Talk 94 MCCABE, Anne, MORTON, Tom, LLINARES, Ana and WHITTAKER, RacHel. Appraisal Analysis of Secondary School History Texts in Two Modes 97 MENZEL, Katrin. Cohesive Ellipsis - A Categorical or a Gradual Notion? Clarification of a Concept as a Basis for a Corpus Linguistic Study 99 MILLER, Donna R., BAYLEY, Paul, BEVITORI, Cinzia, FUSARI, Sabrina and LUPORINI, Antonella. ‘Ticklish trawling’: The Limits of Corpus Assisted Meaning Analysis – A Colloquium in Four Parts 103 MOALLA, Dorra and BENELHADJ, Fatma. A Genre-Based Analysis of Written User Guides and Digital Installation CDs 115 MUKHERJEE, SaraH Jane. A Systemic Functional Linguistic Investigation into Children’s Meaning Making at 4-5 Years in Classroom Role-Play 120 NOBLíA, María Valentina. Modes, Medium and Hypertext: Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Conceptualization of Genre in Digital Texts 123 PETRONI, Sandra. How Social Actions and Practices are Affected by Persuasive Technologies in Digital Settings 126 POLANCO MARTíNEZ, Fernando, GARCíA ASENSIO, Mª Ángeles, YÚFERA GÓMEZ, Irene and MONTOLÍO DURÁN, Estrella. Scientific and Legal Contents in Digital Press: Contrastive Analysis of Popularisation Strategies of Specialized Information 128 ROHRAUER, Leona. Presentation Scale in the Framework of Functional Sentence Perspective Theory 132 SHAGALOV, Ekaterina and FINE, JonatHan. Characteristics of Schizophrenia and Mania Computationally Uncovered through Combinations of Linguistic Variables 135 SINDONI, Maria Grazia. BlogEng: Variation Across Speech and Writing in Blogs 139 TUCKER, Gordon. Electronic Corpora, Databases and Process Types 144 ZAPPAVIGNA, MicHele. Social Media, Ambient Affiliation, and Identity 146 Index of author-provided keywords FSP ........................................ 132 participants ............................. 57 functional analysis ................ 139 pedagogical ............................ 66 academic writing .................... 37 Functional Grammar ............. 115 persuasive technology .......... 126 adjectives ................................ 77 genre ............................... 42, 123 popular science ...................... 77 affiliation ............................... 146 genre analysis ....................... 139 popularisation ...................... 128 affordance ............................ 115 genre pedagogy ...................... 37 present tense .......................... 25 annotation tools ................... 103 grammatical function ............... 8 presentation scale ................ 132 appraisal ..................... 11, 70, 97 hotel websites ........................ 83 ProcessType .......................... 144 appraisal theory ...................... 77 hypertext ........................ 83, 123 professional discourse analysis128 attribution .............................. 57 identity ........................... 70, 146 prognosis ................................ 20 autism ..................................... 60 identity; social actors ................ 5 progressive aspect .................. 25 bilingual corpus ...................... 99 imageability ...........................