The language of science
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The language of science
(Collected works of M.A.K. Halliday, v. 5)
Continuum, 2006, c2004
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First published in hardcover in 2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply into the way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations of concrete experienced events and ending with theoretical worlds populated by abstract entities linked through generalized relations and causalities. He finds these processes most strikingly in the development of the modern sciences that have historically created robust virtual worlds of theory from observable material events. He sees the same processes of grammatical metaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolic environment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systems in schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.' Professor Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: How Big is a Language?
- Part One: Grammatical Metaphor
- 1. Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience
- 2. Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text
- 3. Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge
- 4. The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the. Framing of the English Clause
- Part Two: Scientific English
- 5. On the Language of Physical Science
- 6. Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English
- 7. On the Grammar of Scientific English
- 8. Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power.
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