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

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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
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Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism as Symbolic Articulation of Theme....Pages 59-80
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In Her Own Words: an Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan....Pages 381-411
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In Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan: Notes from the Contributors....Pages 415-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-452