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

Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan is the first collection dedicated to 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. It includes original contributions by well-known scholars such as M.A.K. Halliday, Margaret Berry, David G. Butt, Donna R. Miller, Geoff Williams, Mary Schleppegrell, Annabelle Lukin, Alison Rotha Moore and Tom Bartlett, and covers a range of areas including verbal art, context of situation, semantic networks, cohesive harmony, text structure and literacy education. The volume also contains an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan by David Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang, and a section in which the contributors describe their connection 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.

Wendy L. Bowcher is a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her research interests include multimodal discourse analysis, context in SFL theory, and English intonation. She is co-editor with Bradley A. Smith of Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English (2014), editor of Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights (2012) and co-editor with Terry D. Royce of New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse (2007, 2014).

Jennifer Yameng Liang is a lecturer at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. Her research interests center on both theoretical explorations and practical applications of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), in particular, the concepts of context and ecosocial environment and multimodal/multisemiotic studies.

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