Context in the System and Process of Language - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 4 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
7. The place of context in a systemic functional model [2008]
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.
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The ‘well regulated nature of parole’, i.e. naturally occurring discourse involving ‘exchanges of meaning between ordinary speakers as participants in “concerted social activities”’ (Malinowski 1923) should, argues Hasan in The Place of Context in a Systemic Functional Model (2009), ‘put both language use and context centre stage in linguistics’.