This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan, and notes from the contributors about their connection with Ruqaiya Hasan's work.

There are several collections of Hasan's work. The editors see these volumes as being useful to the proposed book as they raise the academic exposure to the work of Ruqaiya Hasan, and the proposed volume highlights the accessibility of Hasan's work.

1. The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited; M. A. K. Halliday2. 'Construe My Meaning': Performance, Poetry, and Semiotic Distance; David Butt3. Jakobson's Place in Hasan's Social Semiotic Stylistics: : 'Pervasive Parallelism' as Symbolic Articulation of Theme; Donna R. Miller4. Can Semantic Networks Capture Intra- and Inter-registerial Variation? Palliative Care Discourse Interrogates Hasan's Message Semantics; Alison Rotha Moore5. Hasan's Semantic Networks Revisited: A Cantonese Systemic Functional Approach; Andy Fung6. Language and Society, Context and Text: The Contributions of Ruqaiya Hasan; Annabelle Lukin7. Multiscalar Modelling of Context: Some Questions Raised by the Category of Mode; Tom Bartlett8. On Describing Contexts of Situation; Margaret Berry9. Context and Multimodal Communication: Hasan's Notion of Personal Distance; Marvin Lam10. Studying Language in Society and Society through Language: Context and Multimodal Communication; Rebekah Wegener11. GSP and Multimodal Texts; Wendy L. Bowcher and Jennifer Yameng Liang12. Construing Instructional Contexts; Carmel Cloran13. 'Threads of Continuity' and Interaction: Coherence, Texture and Cohesive Harmony; Kristin M. Khoo14. Reflection Literacy in the First Years of Schooling: Questions of Theory and Practice; Geoff Williams15. Reflective Literacy and the Teaching of History; Mariana Achugar and Mary Schleppegrell16. In Her Own Words: An Interview with Ruqaiya Hasan; David G. Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang17. In Honour of Ruqaiya HasanBibliography of Work by Ruqaiya Hasan