Society in Language, Language in Society

Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan

  • Wendy L. Bowcher
  • Jennifer Yameng Liang
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Hasan’s Linguistics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited
      M. A. K. Halliday
      Pages 3-23
    3. ‘Construe My Meaning’: Performance, Poetry and Semiotic Distance
      David G. Butt
      Pages 24-55

  3. Verbal Art

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 57-57
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    2. Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism as Symbolic Articulation of Theme
      Donna R. Miller
      Pages 59-80

  4. Semantic Networks

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 81-81
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    2. Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra-and Inter-Registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan’s Message Semantics
      Alison Rotha Moore
      Pages 83-114
    3. Hasan’s Semantic Networks Revisited: a Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach
      Andy Fung
      Pages 115-140

  5. Context of Situation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 141-141
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    2. Language and Society, Context and Text: the Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan
      Annabelle Lukin
      Pages 143-165
    3. Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode
      Tom Bartlett
      Pages 166-183
    4. On Describing Contexts of Situation
      Margaret Berry
      Pages 184-205
    5. Interfacing Field with Tenor: Hasan’s Notion of Personal Distance
      Marvin Lam
      Pages 206-226
    6. Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication
      Rebekah Wegener
      Pages 227-248

  6. Structure and Texture: Two Kinds of Unity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 249-249
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    2. GSP and Multimodal Texts
      Wendy L. Bowcher, Jennifer Yameng Liang
      Pages 251-274
    3. Construing Instructional Contexts
      Carmel Cloran
      Pages 275-299
    4. ‘Threads of Continuity’ and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony
      Kristin M. Khoo
      Pages 300-330

  7. Literacy and Education

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 331-331
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

literacy education multimodal Systemic Functional Linguistics verbal art social semiotics stylistics semantic networks context of situation language and society cohesive harmony reflection literacy generic structure potential GSP Ruqaiya Hasan ontogenesis social distance coherence communication discourse interaction language Register semantic semantics

Editors and affiliations

  • Wendy L. Bowcher
    • 1
  • Jennifer Yameng Liang
    • 2
  1. 1.Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina
  2. 2.University of Science and Technology BeijingChina

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402868
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Social Sciences
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-57286-1
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-40286-8
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