Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning: Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan

259 Pages·2015·9.505 MB·English

by  Ruqaiya Hasan, David Butt, Carmel Cloran

Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning
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Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning
Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan
Edited by Carmel Cloran, David Butt and Geoffrey Williams
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Contents
Acknowledgements and list of sources vi
Introduction
1
Part One: Text and Context
1. What kind of resource is language? 13
2. What's going on: a dynamic view of context in language 37
3. The nursery tale as a genre 51
Part Two: Tools
4. The grammarian's dream: lexis as most delicate grammar 73
5. Semantic networks: a tool for the analysis of meaning 104
Part Three: Language and Society
6. The ontogenesis of ideology: an interpretation of mother-
child talk 133
7. Speech genre, semiotic mediation and the development of
higher mental functions 152
8. Ways of saying: ways of meaning 191
Index 243