Language, Society And Consciousness

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. The latter involved the devising of extensive semantic system networks for the analysis of meaning in naturally occuring dialogues.Jonathan Webster is Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the General Editor of a forthcoming journal from Equinox Linguistics and the Human Sciences (first issue due out in April 2005).