Symposium in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan
Macquarie University
Feb 16-17, 2016
At this symposium, hosted at the institution where Ruqaiya Hasan spent the most years of her career, and where she conducted some of her best known research, we will examine Hasan’s legacy, retrospectively and prospectively. Ruqaiya Hasan is one of our discipline’s most thoughtful and exciting scholars. Over a 60 year career, she showed the penetrating power of language. She understood that the reach of linguistics was “life-wide”, because this was also the central characteristic of language. She took her critical faculties to the examination of socialization, education, literary aesthetics, the making of mind in society, literacy and globalization, the intricacies of grammatical form, as well as the enormous scope of language, and what this means for the discipline of linguistics. She was a scholar who could think deeply, and range widely. In her scholarship, she entered into dialogue with the ideas of the greatest thinkers on language in the 20th century: Saussure, Vygotsky, Vološinov, Bahktin, Firth, Mukařovský, Malinowki, Whorf, Labov, Bernstein, Halliday, Bourdieu, Derrida, Austin, Searle, Leech, and Levinson. And she showed herself to be at least their equal.
Instructions for joining webcast:
From the link below, you can listen to a live webcast of the second day of the symposium (Wednesday, 17th). Each session is webcast separately. At the end of each session, go back to this link, and click the top streaming link from the list you can see.
https://content.echo.mq.edu.au:8443/ess/portal/section/Ruqaiya%20Hasan%20Symposium
From the link below, you can listen to a live webcast of the second day of the symposium (Wednesday, 17th). Each session is webcast separately. At the end of each session, go back to this link, and click the top streaming link from the list you can see.
https://content.echo.mq.edu.au:8443/ess/portal/section/Ruqaiya%20Hasan%20Symposium
Tuesday programme
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Tuesday morning 9.30-12.30
1. Hasan on language, linguistics, semantic variation and ideology VENUE: E7B100 Dr Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University; Professor Geoff Williams, University of Sydney. 2. Hasan on verbal art VENUE: W2 4A 2.300 (Upper level of Macquarie Theatre) Associate Professor David Butt, Macquarie University; Professor Jonathan Webster, City University, Hong Kong, and Dr Jennifer Yameng Liang, University of Science and Technology, Beijing) |
Tuesday afternoon 1.30-4.30
3. Hasan on text in context, language in society VENUE: E7B100 Dr Alison Moore, University of Wollongong; Professor Wendy Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University 4. Hasan on meaning VENUE: W2 4A 2.300 (Upper level of Macquarie Theatre) Dr Carmel Cloran |
Workshop readings/handouts
Workshop 1: Hasan on Language, linguistics, semantic variation and ideology
| vol_2_chap_9_contexts_for_meaning.pdf |
| bernstein_1990_chapter_1.pdf |
| annabelles_handout.docx |
Workshop 2: Hasan on verbal art
| butt_1988_fos.pdf |
| webster_lukin_2005__1_.pdf |
| hasan_1985_chapter_2.pdf |
Workshop 3: Hasan on text in context, language in society
| hasan__2014__towards_a_paradigmatic_description_of_context_-_with_appendices.pdf |
Workshop 4: Hasan on meaning
| cd6_semantic_networks.pdf |