Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 2 - Brossura

Hasan, Ruqaiya

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ISBN 10: 1904768369 ISBN 13: 9781904768364

Casa editrice: Equinox, 2009

Riassunto

The sociolinguistic turn of the 1960's has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume makes a contribution to a neglected area in sociolinguistics, namely variation at the level of meaning, i.e., semantic variation. The chapters in this volume discuss the results of an empirical research strongly supporting the view that systematic variation in the choice of semantic elements occurs across different social strata: mothers and their young children less than four years old showed a highly consistent, statistically significant, orientation to distinct styles of meaning, which correlated with their social positioning. The comparison of kindergarten teachers' ways of meaning with those of mothers', not surprisingly, reveal that teacher talk is an exaggerated version of middle class mothers' talk. Findings of this research are relevant to any serious discourse about equitable education.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ruqaiya Hasan has taught and held visiting positions at various universities in England, America and Australia. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University, Australia, from where she retired as Emeritus Professor in 1994. Throughout her career she has researched and published widely in the areas of stylistics, culture, context and text, lexicogrammar and semantic variation. Jonathan J. Webster is Professor and Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Director, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the General Editor of the Equinox journal Linguistics and the Human Sciences and the editor (with Ruqaiya Hasan and Christian Matthiessen) of the two volume Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective (Equinox, 2007).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Equinox
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1904768369
• ISBN 13: 9781904768364
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 484
• Redattore: Webster Jonathan J.
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