The theme of ASFLA2026 is Celebrating, Consolidating and Continuing SFL as appliable linguistics in challenging social contexts. We invite abstracts that relate the conference theme to the fields of research that include but are not limited to:

  • Language description 

  • Discourse analysis

  • Multimodality and social semiotics

  • Educational and applied linguistics

  • Digital communication

  • Healthcare communication

  • Environmentalism and sustainability

  • Translation and interpretation

  • Digital humanities

  • Social cohesion and/or tension

  • Corpus linguistics

ASFLA has long supported scholarship, collaboration, and the advancement of systemic functional linguistics in Australia and beyond, and the 2026 conference offers an opportunity to continue those conversations across research, teaching, and practice.  Therefore, ASFLA 2026 will be of interest to academics, teachers, researchers, discourse analysts, and professionals applying SFL in real-world contexts and we welcome all papers aimed at advancing any area of SFL theory or praxis.

Plenaries and Keynotes

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Plenaries:

  • Prof. Theo van Leeuwen– University of Southern Denmark

  • Dr Jing Hao – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  • Prof. Louise Ravelli & A/Prof. Anikó Hatoss – University of New South Wales

  • Dr Lucy Macnaught – Auckland University of Technology

  • Prof. Pauline Jones – University of Wollongong

  • A/Prof. David Caldwell – Adelaide University

Keynotes:

  • A/Prof. Emilia Djonov – Macquarie University

  • Dr Thu Ngo – University of New South Wales

  • Dr Cassi Liardét – Macquarie University

  • Dr Jennifer Blunden – University of Technology, Sydney

  • Dr Lorenzo Logi – University of New South Wales

  • Dr Lilián I. Ariztimuño – University of Wollongong

Pre-Conference Grammar Activities Institute