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Book review

Jonathan J. Webster & Carmel Cloran (eds.). Describing language: Form and function, volume 5 in the collected works of Ruqaiya Hasan. Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2019. xiv + 371 pp.

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Published online: 24 February 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.00033.byr
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Positioning the review
  • 3.Comments on individual articles
    • 3.1Section One: On language and linguistics
      • 3.1.1What kind of resource is language? [1984]
      • 3.1.2Directions from structuralism [1987]
      • 3.1.3Linguistic sign and the science of linguistics [2014]
      • 3.1.4A view of pragmatics in a social semiotic perspective [2012]
      • 3.1.5Choice, system and realisation: Describing language as meaning potential [2013]
    • 3.2Section two: Lexicogrammatical descriptions
      • 3.2.1The grammarian’s dream: Lexis as most delicate grammar [1987]
      • 3.2.2Lending and borrowing: From grammar to lexis [1985]
    • 3.3Section Three: On the relations of syntax and semantics
      • 3.3.1Syntax and semantics [1971]
      • 3.3.2The meaning of ‘not’ is not in ‘not’ [2011]
    • 3.4Section Four: Brief excursions into Urdu grammar
  • 4.Hasan’s writing style and the nature of her scholarly contributions
  • 5.Editorial critique
  • References
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