Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) offers a comprehensive model for analysing how language operates as a social resource. It conceives language in terms of three simultaneous metafunctions: the ...

Ecolinguistic discourse and language ecology examine the complex interplay between language use and the ecosystems—both natural and social—in which it is situated. Emerging in the early 1970s with the ...

The Department of Applied French Linguistics at Ghent University is seeking to appoint a PhD candidate for a research project in discourse analysis (100% temporary position for 4 years). The project ...

Internet memes are a prominent and fast evolving multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis. In this talk, I will focus in particular on two aspects of memetic grammar: the ...

Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, ...