Language in Education: Social Aspects

Hasan taught stylistics, culture, semantic variation, and similar subjects at universities in England, America, and Australia before retiring from Macquarie University, in Australia, in 1994. Here she collects written versions of 11 talks that she delivered over half a century. Much changed over that period, she says, but three major concerns persisted: the need for educators to be aware of the identity of the learner; their need to understand why and in what ways language plays an active part in all the processes of learning and teaching wherever and however they take place; and the connections between language, culture, and the processes of education. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).