Ruqaiya Hasan †

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruqaiya Hasan † is involved.

Titles

Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt

This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to use the popular term — has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.

On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries

The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 118] 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Hasan, Ruqaiya † 2020 Tenor: Rethinking interactant relations Language, Context and Text 2:2, pp. 213–333 | Article

This paper presents work-in-progress on the contextual variable tenor, here reconceptualised as ‘interactant relations’ in order to explore a radically different view of the relations of the interactants to the text in context. The functions of speaker/addressee are the starting point of an… read more

Hasan, Ruqaiya † 2000 Basil Bernstein 1924-2000 Functions of Language 7:2, pp. 279–291 | Obituary

Hasan, Ruqaiya † 1999 8. Speaking with reference to context Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.), pp. 219–328 | Article

Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Peter H. Fries 1995 Reflections on subject and theme: An introduction On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective, Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Peter H. Fries (eds.), pp. xiii–xlvi | Miscellaneous

Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Carmel Cloran 1990 A Sociolinguistic Study of Everyday Talk between Mothers and Children Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 67–99 | Article

Hasan, Ruqaiya † 1984 What kind of resource is language? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:1, pp. 57–85 | Article