Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 2 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
12 The world in words: semiotic mediation, tenor and ideology [2004]
Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 2 - 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
1 Introduction; 2 On learning through language: the meaning of semiotic mediation; 3 Naturally occurring discourse and semiotic mediation; 4 The potential of everyday talk: indications from mother-child dialogues; 5 Tenor and the mediation of mental disposition: concluding remarks