Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum
Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum (LangCT) is an international, peer-refereed journal with a focus on the use, critique and development of social semiotics as originally proposed by the British linguist M.A.K. Halliday. It is dedicated to new theoretical and empirical work in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) concerning any language. Additionally, there is a deep interest in studies of other modalities that use a social semiotic approach and are directly related to SFL. Social semiotic studies of inter-modal relations between language and other meaning systems are of particular interest, as are transdisciplinary studies in which language use plays a key role.
The journal encourages the presentation and critique of new theoretical proposals through careful scholarly analysis, testing of the implications of proposals and presentation of alternative viewpoints broadly within the SFL framework.
The journal publishes research across a broad range of fields and interests: such as, for example, all strata of language and contexts, academic and professional writing, business communication, computational modeling, healthcare communication, child language development, language and literacy learning, literary studies, second and other language learning, social class effects on language use in institutional settings, studies of ideologies, translation and interpretation, and workplace relations.
Chief Editors
Prof. XuanweiPeng Shenzhen University
Prof. Geoff Williams Shenzhen University
Associate Editors
Dr. Nana Jin Shenzhen University
Dr. Jin Wang Shenzhen University
Review Editor
Diane Potts Lancaster University
Editorial Board
Wendy L. Bowcher Sun Yat-sen University
David G. Butt Macquarie University
Heidi Byrnes Georgetown University
Chenguang Chang Sun Yat-sen University
Cecilia Colombi University of California at Davis
Michael J. Cummings York University
Yan Fang Tsinghua University
Zhihui Fang University of Florida
Lise Fontaine Cardiff University
Sheena Gardner Coventry University
Guowen Huang South China Agricultural University
Rosemary Huisman University of Sydney
Annabelle Lukin Macquarie University
J.R. Martin University of Sydney
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mick O’Donnell Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Kay O’Halloran University of Liverpool
Teresa OteízaPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mary J. Schleppegrell University of Michigan
Erich Steiner Saarbrucken University
MaiteTaboada Simon Fraser University
Paul J. Thibault Agder University College
Zhenhua Wang Shanghai Jiaotong University
Jonathan J. Webster City University of Hong Kong
Canzhong Wu Macquarie University
Delu Zhang Tongji University
Yongsheng Zhu Fudan University
