Society in language, language in society
Subtitle: essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan
By: Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, China   ; Jennifer Yameng Liang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Contributors: Hasan, Ruqaiya, honoree
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781137402851
Subjects: Language and education; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistcs; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Social aspects; Communication; Variation; Language and culture; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics; Semiotics; Language and languages
Description: "This is the first collection dedicated to presenting research directly influenced by the innovative and groundbreaking ideas of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. The collection offers an insight into the breadth and depth of Hasan's distinctive linguistic approaches and theoretical concerns. The chapters cover areas such as verbal art, context of situation, semantic networks, cohesive harmony, text structure and literacy education, contributed by well-known scholars in the field such as M.A.K. Halliday, Geoffrey Williams, David Butt, Donna Miller, Wendy L. Bowcher, Tom Bartlett and Margaret Berry. The volume contains an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan by David Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang, and a section in which the contributors describe their connection and/or history with Ruqaiya Hasan and her work. This book is of particular value to scholars and students working in sociolinguistics, literary criticism, stylistics, functional linguistic theories, literacy pedagogy, social semiotics, multimodality and applied linguistics"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited; M. A. K. Halliday2. 'Construe My Meaning': Performance, Poetry, and Semiotic Distance; David Butt3. Jakobson's Place in Hasan's Social Semiotic Stylistics: : 'Pervasive Parallelism' as Symbolic Articulation of Theme; Donna R. Miller4. Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra- and Inter-registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan's Message Semantics; Alison Rotha Moore5. Hasan's Semantic Networks Revisited: A Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach; Andy Fung6. Language and Society, Context and Text: The Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan; Annabelle Lukin7. Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode; Tom Bartlett8. On Describing Contexts of Situation; Margaret Berry9. Context and Multimodal Communication: Hasan's Notion of Personal Distance; Marvin Lam10. Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication; Rebekah Wegener11. GSP and Multimodal Texts; Wendy L. Bowcher and Jennifer Yameng Liang12. Construing Instructional Contexts; Carmel Cloran13. 'Threads of Continuity' and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony; Kristin M. Khoo14. Reflection Literacy in the First Years of Schooling: Questions of Theory and Practice; Geoff Williams15. Reflective Literacy and the Teaching of History; Mariana Achugar and Mary Schleppegrell16. In Her Own Words: An Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan; David G. Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang17. In Honour of Ruqaiya HasanBibliography of Work by Ruqaiya Hasan.