5 Semiotic Mediation and Three Exotropic Theories: Vygotsky, Halliday and Bernstein
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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Description
In this chapter the story of three specialisations will be woven together. The three human concerns whose interconnectedness forms the focus of this chapter are: consciousness, language and society.