Language and Education: Learning and Teaching in Society - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 3 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
4 Forms of discourse, forms of knowledge: reading Bernstein (with David Butt)
Language and Education: Learning and Teaching in Society - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 3 - 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
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Discourse on knowledge – its ontogenesis, maintenance and change – is fraught with challenge not only because so many diverse issues surround the concept pressing urgently for attention, but also because the issues themselves are so complex due to being closely woven into the politicoeconomic fabric of human existence.