Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor

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Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor

Inger Lassen

（Document design companion series, v. 4）

John Benjamins, c2003

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  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-174) and indexes

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Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This book offers a new approach to accessibility studies by exploring not only style, but also attitudes to style, by asking text consumers which style they prefer for different parts of the manual. A key role is played by the Systemic Functional Linguistics' notion of grammatical metaphor, a stylistic choice that is commonly used in technical literature. Grammatical metaphor - although apparently obstructing the comprehension process of some readers - is a common element in the preferred style that separates the 'insiders' from the 'outsiders'. An explanation of this rather surprising result is offered by resorting to Critical Discourse Analysis.

目次

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. 1. Research disciplines and methods
  • 4. 2. Field, tenor and mode dimensions
  • 5. 3. Register analysis
  • 6. 4. Categorizing text through genre analysis
  • 7. 5. Research methods and survey
  • 8. 6. Information structure
  • 9. 7. The technical manual as social semiotic
  • 10. 8. Discussion and conclusions
  • 11. References
  • 12. Appendix: Survey of writing style in technical manuals
  • 13. Name index
  • 14. Subject index

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