Ruqaiya yousuf biography

Indian linguist

Ruqaiya Hasan (3 July 1931^[a] – 24 June 2015) was a professor of linguistics who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England.

Her last appointment was at Macquarie University in Sydney, from which she retired as emeritus professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture, lexicogrammar and semantic variation.

The latter involved the devising of extensive semantic system networks for the analysis of meaning in naturally occurring dialogues.^[2]

Biography

In 1964 she completed her PhD in linguistics, also at the University of Edinburgh.

The title of her thesis was 'A Linguistic Study of Contrasting Features in the Style of Two Contemporary English Prose Writers'.^[3] The writers were Angus Wilson and William Golding. She drew on Halliday's early work, in particular, his "Categories of the Theory