"The 12th International and National Conference on Discourse Analysis" was successfully held in Tongji University from 12th to 14th November. The theme of the Symposium was "Applicable Discourse Analysis". Prof. Dong Qi, Vice President of Tongji University, Prof. Ma Qiuwu, Dean of College of Foreign Languages and Prof. M.A.K. Halliday, Founder of the Systematic-Functional Linguistics, addressed at the opening ceremony.
About 500 national and international experts of functional linguistics attended the symposium. During the symposium there were more than 430 papers submitted.