We are very pleased to announce the 7^th International Symposium on Functional Linguistics (SILF), which will take place at the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, between September 4^th and 6^th 2024. The theme of this edition of SILF is “New directions for classical themes in functionalism”. With this theme, we seek to bring together studies that discuss the tension between tradition and innovation in functionalist linguistic research, in order to encourage not only the establishment of dialogue and interfaces with areas still only timidly explored by functionalists, but also to revisit themes that still lack answers and that, through new methods, can be explored in new directions. The event is organized in ten thematic axes:

 

1. Text-discourse organization
2. Language and grammar teaching
3. Typology and linguistic diversity
4. Construction Grammar
5. Variation and Change
6. Cognition and Usage-based models
7. Discourse and social interaction
8. Description and functional analysis of natural languages
9. Computational applications and interfaces
10. Language, Society, and Linguistic Policies

 

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