Language, Society and Consciousness - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1 - Ruqaiya Hasan†
8 Ways of Meaning, Ways of Learning: code as an explanatory concept
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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The aim of this chapter is to show the power of the concept of code in explaining systematic variation in the meanings people habitually mean, an enquiry which was inspired by Bernstein’s writings on the relations of coding orientation to knowledge distribution in modern societies.