Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning: Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan (Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

"This work comprises a collection of the writings of Ruqaiya Hasan, an influential figure in the systemic functional linguistic learning school. It discusses the relation between text and context and the realization of context in language; the 'network', which is outlined as analytic tool which can be applied at two strata of language, the lexico-grammatical and the semantic; as well as aspects of the social structure that are implicated in the way cultures and subcultures express themselves."--Bloomsbury Publishing. This work comprises a collection of the writings of Ruqaiya Hasan, an influential figure in the systemic functional linguistic learning school. Among the themes discussed are the relation between text and context, and the implications of cultural expression for social structure.