Professor Christian Matthiessen

Professor, Chair of Linguistics (Macquarie Uni., Australia)

Qualifications: Ph.D. UCLA, M.A. UCLA, Phil. Cand.

Ruqaiya Hasan

Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University (retired)

(Biography)

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 (?City University of Hong Kong)

兩捲裝的著作為讀者有選擇的迴顧和闡述瞭過去幾十年間的係統功能語言學派的衍生過程。理論與應用兼顧。

This 2-volume set offers the reader a selective account of the evolution of important aspects of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last decades. The range of topics include not only certain fundamental concepts at the level of theory, but also an account of the wide range of applications enabled by the descriptive framework that the theory has generated.