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My sponsor was <a href="http://portal.uned.es/portal/page?_pageid=93,68480587&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL" target="_blank">Prof. Laura Alba-Juez</a>, UNED's Vice-Rector for International Relations. The entire solemn ceremony 90 of investiture can be watched <a href="https://canal.uned.es/video/60b73f4db609237b0912baf6" target="_blank">here</a> (1 hour 40 minutes). And <a href="https://canal.uned.es/video/60c0c967b609235c1c448d62" target="_blank">here</a> is a short (6 minutes) television programme about the event that was broadcast on TVE2.</li> 91 </ul> 92 <h3>Honorary Membership of Societas Linguistica Europæa</h3> 93 <ul class="news"> 94 <li>In January 2025, the Executive Committee of Societas Linguistica Europæa (SLE) gave me an <a href="https://societaslinguistica.eu/about-societas-linguistica-europaea/" target="_blank">honorary life membership</a>. I acted as Treasurer of SLE from 2018 to 2023.</li> 95 </ul> 96 <h3>Participation in Conferences, Workshops and Symposia, online and on site, 2022 onwards</h3> 97 <ul class="news"> 98 <li>4-5 May 2022: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/actividadeslinguisticas/congreso-emociones/registro/taller-emotion-in-discourse?authuser=0" target="_blank">Workshop on Emotion Processes in Discourse</a>, together with Laura Alba-Juez (UNED, Spain), organized as part of the Congreso Internacional sobre Emociones, Discursos y Argumentación at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico).</li> 99 <li>9-10 June 2022: Invited speaker at the workshop <a href="https://linguo.grupos.uniovi.es/en/actualidad" target="_blank">Current Approaches to Morphosyntax at the Interfaces</a>, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain); my title: 'Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) as a grammar of the Discourse Act'.</li> 100 <li>25 June 2022: Invited <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehmREMRsEQ4" target="_blank">plenary lecture</a>, given in English on 'Recent advances in Functional Discourse Grammar', to the online conference VI SILF - Simpósio Internacional de Linguística Funcional, the sixth in a series of biennial events.</li> 101 <li>28 June-1 July 2022: 'Privative constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar', Seventh International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, in Schoorl (Netherlands).</li> 102 <li>3 November 2022: Invited online opening lecture 'GDF: avanços e desdobramentos' for the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj1RmPUJXVL/" target="blank"><em>Seminário de 20 anos do GPGF</em></a>, celebrating 20 years of research into Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar by the GPGF group at Unesp-São João do Rio Preto SP, Brazil.</li> 103 <li>12 May 2023: 'Basic negation is highest negation?', presentation to FDG Online lectures.</li> 104 <li>13-14 July 2023: 'Contrast facilitates predictive processing', paper for the International Workshop on Linearization in Functional Discourse Grammar (<a href="https://fdg.humanities.uva.nl/events/workshops/FDG-IW-2023/Workshop_2023.html" target="_blank">IW-FDG-2023</a>).</li> 105 <li>26 September 2023: '"Eu não atendo bêbado": Ambiguidade, eficiência e gramática'; invited talk in the framework of the <a href="https://www.abralin.org/site/abralin-divulga-dialogos-com-maria-helena-de-moura-neves/" target="blank">online event</a> 'Diálogos com Maria Helena Moura Neves', organized in memory of the great Brazilian linguist by the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil.</li> 106 <li>March 2025: Interview with five questions and answers on FDG for "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=CFvMgEpgMmE" target="blank">Linguística Funcional Integra - Temporada 4"</a>, coordinated by Profa. Dra. Nadja Paulino Pessoa Prata of the Universidade Federal do Ceará.</li> 107 <li>26 May 2026: Lecture to <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/retired-and-kicking" target="blank">'Retired & Kicking'</a>, Lipsius Building, Leiden, Netherlands, on the expression 'in case' in English.</li> 108 <li>8-10 July 2026: 'The unique selling points of FDG', talk to the <a href="https://fdg.humanities.uva.nl/events/conferences/IC-FDG-2026/Conference_2026.html" target="blank">FDG2026 conference</a>, University of Córdoba, Spain.</li> 109 <li>12 February 2027: 'The unique selling points of FDG', an expanded presentation to FDG Online lectures.</li> 110 </ul> 111 <h3>Lecture to Abralin ao Vivo during the Covid-19 epidemic</h3> 112 <ul class="news"> 113 <li>On 9 June 2020, I gave a talk "Gramática Discursivo-Funcional: Reflexões desde o autoisolamento" to <a href="https://www.abralin.org/site/abralin-ao-vivo/" target="_blank">Abralin ao Vivo</a>
113. It can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6GCpZiaqOI&t=522s" target="_blank">here</a>.</li> 114 </ul> 115 <h3>Organization of Workshops, etc.</h3> 116 <ul class="news"> 117 <li>13, 17, 20, 24, 27 September 2021: Postgraduate course on the <a href="https://ead.abralin.org/" target="_blank">e-learning platform</a> of the Brazilian Linguistics Association: "Pragmatics through the prism of FDG".</li> 118 <li>29 August-2 September 2022: Co-ordination of the 2022 ESSE Doctoral Symposium for PhD students in English Language & Linguistics, Literatures in English, and Cultural & Area Studies at the University of Mainz (Germany).</li> 119 <li>24-25 August 2023: Co-ordination of the 2023 ESSE Doctoral Symposium at the University of Milan (Italy).</li> 120 <li>26-30 August 2024: Co-ordination of the 2024 ESSE Doctoral Symposium at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).</li> 121 <li>2-3 September 2025: Co-ordination of the 2025 ESSE Doctoral Symposium at the University of Malta.</li> 122 <li>31 August-4 September 2026: Co-ordination of the <a href="https://www.esse2026.com/media/uploads/1759481162_PDF2.pdf" target="_blank">2026 ESSE Doctoral Symposium</a> as part of the <a href="https://www.esse2026.com/en/index.php" target="_blank">2026 ESSE Conference</a> in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).</li> 123 <li>26-27 August 2027: Co-ordination of the 2027 ESSE Doctoral Symposium at Istinye University, Istanbul.</li> 124 </ul> 125 <h3>Prize</h3> 126 <ul class="news"> 127 <li>The "Premio de Investigación AESLA 'Rafael Monroy' para investigadores experimentados" was awarded to a book I co-edited with María de los Ángeles Gómez González 128 in 2018, <a href="http://www.lachlanmackenzie.info/2018.html" target="_blank"><em>The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction</em></a> (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 296, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins). The prize was presented on 28 March 2019 during the 37th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics, held in Valladolid (Spain).</li> 129 </ul> 130 <h3>Past Distinctions</h3> 131 <ul class="news"> 132 <li>On 8 October 2004 I was the recipient of the <em>Festschrift</em>: 133 <ul> 134 <li>Aertsen, H., M. Hannay and R. Lyall (eds), 2004. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/nl/title/words-in-their-places-a-festschrift-for-j-lachlan-mackenzie/oclc/1002799465" target="_blank"><em>Words in their places</a>: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie</em>, Amsterdam: VU University Amsterdam.</li> 135 </ul> 136 </li> 137 <li>On 2 April 2007 another <em>Festschrift</em> in my honour was published: 138 <ul> 139 <li>Hannay, M. and G.J. Steen (eds), 2007. <a href="https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.83" target="_blank"><em>Structural-functional studies in English grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie</em></a>. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: Benjamins. This book has been <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=ARCL%206&artid=313122374" target="_blank">reviewed</a> by Francisco Gonzálvez-García. See also the book notice by Ahmad M. Saidat at <a href="http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/booknotices/?p=990" target="_blank">elanguage</a>.</li> 140 </ul> 141 </li> 142 <li>I was awarded a Giner de los Rios fellowship to spend two months (February and March 2009) at the University of Alcalá (Spain) as a consultant for a project on autonomous learning and lexical acquisition.</li> 143 <li>From 15 September to 15 December 2012 I worked, thanks to a grant for prestigious researchers from the Banco Santander, as a consultant for the Research Group <a href="http://actualing.weebly.com/" target="_blank">ACTUALing</a> in the Faculty of Philology at <a href="https://www.uned.es/universidad/inicio.html" target="_blank">UNED</a>, the Spanish National University of Distance Education in Madrid (Spain).</li> 144 </ul> 145 146 147 <!-- EDIT CONTENT ABOVE THIS LINE --> 148 <!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> 149 150 151 </main> 152 <footer> 153 <p>©2004
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