Language, Society and Consciousness - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
2 Society, Language and Mind: the metadialogism of Basil Bernstein’s theory
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.
Read her obituary here
Description
This chapter is concerned with a number of questions: What does it take for theories to engage in dialogue? Could any linguistic theory dialogue with Bernstein’s sociology? Could any sociology dialogue with Halliday’s linguistics? If not, how do we explain this selectivity? This chapter is intended as a continuation of reflection on this general problem.