Afterwords
Verbal Art and Systemic Functional Linguistics - Donna R. Miller
Donna R. Miller [+ ]
University of Bologna
Donna R. Miller is Alma Mater Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna (in retirement since July 2019). Her corpus-assisted investigations have regularly explored the grammar of evaluation in institutional text types and verbal art, this last being the central focus of her recent work, in a Hasanian perspective.
Description
Closing the volume is an ‘Afterwords’, which speaks to the future directions systemic functional stylistic studies might take. Here the field has been restricted to Hasan’s SSS, to its future, since one can assuredly trust that Halliday’s stylistic work will continue to receive due regard both within and outside the SFL community, while Hasan’s stylistic legacy is indubitably less secure. Another choice made was to dialogue with Bowcher (2018), the closing chapter to a volume dedicated to Hasan and entitled ‘Future directions in the study of verbal art’. Many are the suggestions for future research that she makes and it is these that are assessed and responded to in this final part of the volume.