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ASFLA Has Awarded The Inaugural MAK Halliday Prize To Plagiarisers

Yaegan Doran wrote to: SYSFLING and asflanet on 25 Nov 2023, at 08:26:

On behalf of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, and following the deliberation of the International Selection Committee, it was my honour this week to announce the winner of the Inaugural MAK Halliday Prize for most significant monograph in SFL in the years 2021-2022 as:

Ngo, T., Hood, S., Martin, J. R., Painter, C., Smith, B., & Zappavigna, M.

Modelling paralanguage from the perspective of Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and application. Bloomsbury. 2022.

Congratulations to all the authors!

I also want to warmly congratulate the other short-listed books who have made an extraordinary contribution to our field and our community:

Maagerø, Eva, Ruth Mulvad and Elise Seip Tønnesen. 2022. Women in Social Semiotics and SFL – making a difference. London and New York: Routledge

McCabe, Anne. 2001. A Functional Linguistic Perspective on Developing Language. London and New York: Routledge.

Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M., Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma & Isaac N. Mwinlaaru. 2022. Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics. Singapore: Springer.

I was so pleased with the wonderful quality and breadth of work that was nominated for the prize, as well as its international scope, and so I thank everyone involved! I want to thank in particular the selection committee made up of colleagues from all continents, for their excellent and professional work in selecting the Prize:

Australia

Rosemary Huisman (Chair) The University of Sydney, Australia

Asia

Emi Emilia Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

(Indonesian University of Education)

China

Zhu Yongsheng 复旦大学 (Fudan University, China)

Africa

Ralph Adendorff Rhodes University, South Africa

Latin America

Natalia Ignatieva Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México

(National Autonomous University of Mexico)

North America

Meg Gebhard University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Europe

Marta Filipe Alexandre Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal)

Thank you to all, and congratulations to the winners and to the shortlistees!