The language of science

Michael A. K. Halliday, Jonathan James Webster

2004-01-01bookContinuum eBooks286 citationsclosed

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Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Linguistic research and analysis linguistics and terminology studies

Abstract

Introduction - On the power of language Language and the reshaping of human experience Language and knowledge: the 'unpacking' of text Things and relations: regrammaticizing experience as technical knowledge The grammatical construction of scientific knowledge: the framing of the English clause On the language of physical science Some grammatical problems in scientific English On the grammar of scientific English Writing Science: literacy and discursive power

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