Society in Language, Language in Society

Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan

Wendy L. Bowcher, Jennifer Yameng Liang (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

452 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-40285-1 (ISBN)

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This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan, and notes from the contributors about their connection with Ruqaiya Hasan's work.

Mariana Achugar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Tom Bartlett , Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Margaret Berry, University of Nottingham, UK. Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, China David Butt, Macquarie University, Australia. Carmel Cloran, University of Wollongong, Australia. Andy Fung, Hong Kong. Polytechnic University, China. M.A.K. Halliday, University of Sydney, Australia. Kristin M. Khoo, Macquarie University, Australia. Marvin Lam, Hong Kong. Polytechnic University, China. Jennifer Yameng Liang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University, Australia. Donna R. Miller, University of Bologna, Italy. Alison Moore, University of Wollongong, Australia. Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan, USA. Rebekah Wegener, Aachen University, Germany. Geoff Williams, University of British Columbia, Canada.

1. The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited; M. A. K. Halliday 2. 'Construe My Meaning': Performance, Poetry, and Semiotic Distance; David Butt 3. Jakobson's Place in Hasan's Social Semiotic Stylistics: : 'Pervasive Parallelism' as Symbolic Articulation of Theme; Donna R. Miller 4. Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra- and Inter-registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan's Message Semantics; Alison Rotha Moore 5. Hasan's Semantic Networks Revisited: A Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach; Andy Fung 6. Language and Society, Context and Text: The Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan; Annabelle Lukin 7. Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode; Tom Bartlett 8. On Describing Contexts of Situation; Margaret Berry 9. Context and Multimodal Communication: Hasan's Notion of Personal Distance; Marvin Lam 10. Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication; Rebekah Wegener 11. GSP and Multimodal Texts; Wendy L. Bowcher and Jennifer Yameng Liang 12. Construing Instructional Contexts; Carmel Cloran 13. 'Threads of Continuity' and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony; Kristin M. Khoo 14. Reflection Literacy in the First Years of Schooling: Questions of Theory and Practice; Geoff Williams 15. Reflective Literacy and the Teaching of History; Mariana Achugar and Mary Schleppegrell 16. In Her Own Words: An Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan; David G. Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang 17. In Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan Bibliography of Work by Ruqaiya Hasan

“This volume is a must-read for those doing work on semantic networks, context and language, texts and textuality, literacy and education, and verbal art. … The essays in this volume go a long way to making sure that Ruqaiya Hasan’s contribution to our understanding of how language works as humanity s resource for being and making meaning will live long past her beautiful life, Humanity is richer and better for the life she lived among us.” (Jonathan Webster, Functions of Language, Vol. 25 (2), 2018)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2015
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 452 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-40285-7 / 1137402857
ISBN-13	978-1-137-40285-1 / 9781137402851
Zustand	Neuware