Society in Language, Language in Society : Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan

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. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Tables 10 Preface 11 Acknowledgements 13 Notes on the Contributors 14 Part I: Hasan’s Linguistics 20 1 The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited 21 2 ‘Construe My Meaning’: Performance, Poetry and Semiotic Distance 42 Part II: Verbal Art 74 3 Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism’ as Symbolic Articulation of Theme 75 Part III: Semantic Networks 97 4 Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra- and Inter-Registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan’s Message Semantics 98 5 Hasan’s Semantic Networks Revisited: a Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach 130 Part IV: Context of Situation 156 6 Language and Society, Context and Text: the Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan 157 7 Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode 180 8 On Describing Contexts of Situation 198 9 Interfacing Field with Tenor: Hasan’s Notion of Personal Distance 220 10 Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication 241 Part V: Structure and Texture: Two Kinds of Unity 263 11 GSP and Multimodal Texts 264 12 Construing Instructional Contexts 288 13 ‘Threads of Continuity’ and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony 313 Part VI: Literacy and Education 344 14 Reflection Literacy in the First Years of Schooling: Questions of Theory and Practice 345 15 Reflection Literacy and the Teaching of History 369 Part VII: In Her Own Words 391 16 In Her Own Words: an Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan 392 Part VIII: In Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan 423 17 In Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan: Notes from the Contributors 424 A Bibliography of Work by Ruqaiya Hasan 442 Author Index 448 Subject Index 453 Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited....Pages 3-23 ‘Construe My Meaning’: Performance, Poetry and Semiotic Distance....Pages 24-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism as Symbolic Articulation of Theme....Pages 59-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra-and Inter-Registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan’s Message Semantics....Pages 83-114 Hasan’s Semantic Networks Revisited: a Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach....Pages 115-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Language and Society, Context and Text: the Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan....Pages 143-165 Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode....Pages 166-183 On Describing Contexts of Situation....Pages 184-205 Interfacing Field with Tenor: Hasan’s Notion of Personal Distance....Pages 206-226 Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication....Pages 227-248 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 GSP and Multimodal Texts....Pages 251-274 Construing Instructional Contexts....Pages 275-299 ‘Threads of Continuity’ and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony....Pages 300-330 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 Reflection Literacy in the First Years of Schooling: Questions of Theory and Practice....Pages 333-356 Reflection Literacy and the Teaching of History....Pages 357-378 Front Matter....Pages 379-379 In Her Own Words: an Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan....Pages 381-411 Front Matter....Pages 413-413 In Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan: Notes from the Contributors....Pages 415-432 Back Matter....Pages 433-452 "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"-- Provided by publisher