3 Speech Genre, Semiotic Mediation and the Development of Higher Mental Functions
Language, Society and Consciousness - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1 - 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.
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It is hope that the development of this chapter will reveal that an exploration of the relations between the three concepts invoked in the title – ‘speech genre’, ‘semiotic mediation’ and ‘the development of higher mental functions’ – is relevant to some of the foundational issues in linguistic theory.