Context in the System and Process of Language - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 4 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
6. Speaking with reference to context [1999]
Context in the System and Process of Language - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 4 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
Ruqaiya Hasan† [+]
Macquarie University
Ruqaiya Hasan, who died in 2015, was a professor of linguistics who taught and held visiting positions at various universities in England. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University, Australia, from where she retired as Emeritus Professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture, lexicogrammar and semantic variation.
Read her obituary here
Description
In Speaking with Reference to Context (1999), Hasan acknowledges instances, however, where contextual/registerial constancy across a text can be called into question, i.e. where ‘the integrity of a text survives certain kinds of contextual/registerial changes.’ Rather than describe the relationship between context and text in deterministic terms, Hasan instead describes the relationship as being more along the lines of a ‘realizational dialectic’.